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MiniMax AI releases open-weight multimodal M3 model

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MiniMax AI has released its MiniMax M3 model, featuring open weights and approximately 428 billion total parameters with 23 billion active parameters. This model is designed for the agent era and supports native multimodality across text, image, and video, with a context window of up to 1 million tokens. The release includes updated licensing terms, making commercial use free for individuals or companies under $20 million in annual revenue, requiring only a notification. AI

IMPACT This open-weight multimodal model with a large context window could accelerate agent development and multimodal AI applications.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with open weights and system card.

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MiniMax AI releases open-weight multimodal M3 model

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COVERAGE [7]

  1. X — SemiAnalysis TIER_1 English(EN) · SemiAnalysis_ ·

    DAY 0 ALERT: @MiniMax_AI M3 is now available on HuggingFace &amp; has been added to InferenceX. The M3 architecture has ~428B parameters and ~23B activated para

    DAY 0 ALERT: @MiniMax_AI M3 is now available on HuggingFace &amp; has been added to InferenceX. The M3 architecture has ~428B parameters and ~23B activated parameters. Due to the 10x engineers from @inferact, M3 is already delivering pretty well-optimized performance on @NVIDIAAI…

  2. X — MiniMax AI TIER_1 English(EN) · MiniMax_AI ·

    RT @gmi_cloud: MiniMax M3 is live on GMI

    RT @gmi_cloud: MiniMax M3 is live on GMI M3 is the first open-weight model combining frontier coding &amp; agent capabilities, 1M-token contex…

  3. X — MiniMax AI TIER_1 English(EN) · MiniMax_AI ·

    RT @novita_labs: 🤗 MiniMax M3 from @MiniMax_AI is now live on @huggingface — supported by Novita.

    RT @novita_labs: 🤗 MiniMax M3 from @MiniMax_AI is now live on @huggingface — supported by Novita. Open weights. ~428B total parameters. ~2…

  4. X — MiniMax AI TIER_1 English(EN) · MiniMax_AI ·

    RT @RyanLeeMiniMax: On the M3 license — thanks for the feedback on M2.7

    RT @RyanLeeMiniMax: On the M3 license — thanks for the feedback on M2.7 You told us prior-approval-for-any-commercial-use was too much. We…

  5. X — MiniMax AI TIER_1 English(EN) · MiniMax_AI ·

    RT @lmsysorg: 🎉 SGLang has Day-0 support for MiniMax-M3 from @MiniMax_AI, a native-multimodal MoE reasoning model of ~428B total params (~2…

    RT @lmsysorg: 🎉 SGLang has Day-0 support for MiniMax-M3 from @MiniMax_AI, a native-multimodal MoE reasoning model of ~428B total params (~2…

  6. Fireworks AI blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    MiniMax M3 is live: long context + native multimodality at 1/20th the price

    MiniMax M3 is now available on Fireworks AI with Day-0 support — delivering the first open-weight model to combine frontier-level coding, native multimodal understanding (images and video), and a 1M-token context window in a single model. Powered by MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA)…

  7. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 Deutsch(DE) · [email protected] ·

    RT @ModelScope2022: MiniMax M3 is now available as open source! The model combines native multimodal understanding, ultra-long contexts, and agent capabilities

    RT @ModelScope2022: MiniMax M3 ist jetzt als Open Source verfügbar! Das Modell kombiniert natives multimodales Verständnis, ultra-lange Kontexte und Agent-Fähigkeiten in einem.🚀 mehr auf Arint.info # AI # DeepLearning # MachineLearning # MiniMaxM3 # ModelScope # OpenSource # arin…

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