Genspark's Gen-1 Slides matches Opus 5 decks at about one-tenth the cost per deck
Gen-1 Slides: Opus 5-level decks at a fraction of the cost
AISummary
Genspark and Fireworks Lab post-trained the open-weight MiniMax M3 into Gen-1 Slides, a model that plans, writes, and checks slide decks end-to-end. On Genspark's evaluation it matches Claude Opus 5 at about 1/17 of its input-token list price, roughly 90% less per finished deck. In production it cut low-rated decks from 18% to 3.6% over the base model.
AIWhy it matters
The post explains a post-training pipeline with reward design, curriculum, and numerical fixes, showing how a cheaper model was tuned toward a frontier quality bar.
Source: Fireworks AI Blog · fireworks.ai