MiniMax releases M3, a native multimodal model with 1M context
AIMiniMax has released MiniMax-M3, a native multimodal model with a 1M-token context window, roughly 428B total parameters, and about 23B activated parameters. The model introduces MiniMax Sparse Attention, which the source says delivers 9× prefill and 15× decode speedups over M2 at 1M context. M3 supports enabled, adaptive, and disabled reasoning modes through the thinking parameter, and weights are available on Hugging Face.
Why it matters: The source gives concrete attention-efficiency figures and three reasoning modes, which helps readers judge long-context cost against deployment choices.