MINIMAX PROMISES M3 WEIGHTS AFTER 1M-CONTEXT MODEL LAUNCH

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MiniMax will release the model weights and a technical report for its M3 model within the next 10 days. The new model is currently available through MiniMax Code, token plans, and an API. It has a 1M-token context window and a guaranteed 512,000-token minimum for API use. The model is the first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, native multimodality, and a 1M-token context window. MiniMax lists standard API pricing up to 512,000 input tokens at $0.60 per million input and $2.40 per million output.