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

MiniMax M3, the latest model in the open-weight ecosystem, represents a significant advancement by combining strong agentic capabilities, native multimodality, and an extensive context window of over 500K tokens. It surpasses other models in intelligence, as evidenced by benchmarks and third-party evaluations, and offers a competitive price-to-capability ratio. The model's architecture, MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA), enables efficient long-context processing, achieving substantial speed improvements over previous models and making real-time production latency viable. Developers can leverage M3's capabilities for complex, multi-turn coding collaboration, multimodal inputs, and long-document understanding, with the added flexibility of toggling reasoning modes. Available on Fireworks, M3 supports a range of demanding workloads and is priced competitively to facilitate adoption while plans are underway to expand its context window to 1M tokens.

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