MiniMax M3
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MiniMax M3: The First Open-Weight Model with Frontier Coding, 1M Context, and Native Multimodality
MiniMax has released M3, the first open-weight frontier model to combine top-tier coding performance, a 1 million token context window via the new MSA sparse attention architecture, and native multimodality — all in a single model that can also control a desktop computer.
### TL;DR
MiniMax M3 is the first open-weight frontier model to combine frontier-level coding, 1M token context via MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention), and native multimodality (image + video input + desktop control) in a single model. It surpasses GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on SWE-Bench Pro, beats Opus 4.7 on SVG-Bench, and leads on Claw-Eval for autonomous agents.
Key Insights & Metrics
Key Features
- MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention) enables true 1M token context — a new sparse attention architecture that partitions KV into blocks more precisely than DSA/MoBA; per-token compute at 1M context is 1/20 of the previous generation, with 9× prefill speedup and 15× decode speedup versus full attention, while matching full attention on nearly all capability benchmarks
- Frontier coding and agentic performance — SWE-Bench Pro: 59.0%, Terminal-Bench 2.1: 66.0%, MCP Atlas: 74.2%, KernelBench Hard: 28.8%; demonstrated 24-hour autonomous CUDA kernel optimization improving Hopper FP8 hardware utilization from 7.6% to 71.3% (9.4× speedup) across 147 benchmark submissions with zero human intervention
- First open-weight model with all three frontier capabilities — native multimodality (image/video input, desktop computer control) trained from Step 0 with interleaved text+image data scaled to 100T tokens; independently reproduced an ICLR 2025 Outstanding Paper over 12 hours, 18 commits, and 23 experimental figures; available via MiniMax Code, Token Plan, and API
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