MiniMax Announces M3.1 Flash: Three Times Faster at a Third of the Cost
MiniMax has announced M3.1 Flash, a model it says runs three times faster than M3 at a third of the cost, with open weights due on October 23. The company confirmed that Space Bunny, the model that recently topped global leaderboards after training on more than 200 trillion tokens, was an early version of M3.1 Flash. MiniMax reports scores of 62% on Automation-Bench, 30% on ALE, 74% on DeepSWE, and 91% on BabyVision. API pricing is $0.15 per million input tokens, $0.60 per million output tokens, and $0.015 per million cached input tokens, available through the MiniMax API, M Plan, or the MiniMax Code desktop app.
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