MiniMax debuts AI model built for long and complex coding tasks

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up MiniMax has unveiled its latest flagship AI model, M3, designed to anchor the company’s push into coding agents and automated workflows. The Shanghai-based company said on Monday that the model’s redesigned architecture reduced computational requirements to as little as one-twentieth of previous levels, slashing inference costs while boosting response speeds. Notably, MiniMax said M3 could process up to 1 million tokens of data at once – five times more...