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 than its predecessor, the M2.7. This allowed the model to handle long, complex programming projects. In one benchmark test cited by the company, M3 successfully figured out how to optimise software running on Nvidia’s Hopper chips.

Full report : Chinese AI developer MiniMax debuts M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7.