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Sat, Oct 3
MiniMax's M3.1-Flash-Preview is used to reproduce Opus 5.5's front-end showpieces, as flagship skills reach lightweight models faster
A flagship's signature skill showed up in a lightweight model within a week, so the window in which a leader can charge a premium for something only it can do is now measured in days.
Tue, Sep 29
MiniMax opens public beta for M3.1-Flash-Preview with multimodal input and a one-million-token context window
Earning a reputation on developer platforms under a codename, then taking off the mask, has become a way for model companies to win first users.
Thu, Aug 27
MiniMax H3, Post-Trained by a Third Party, Surpasses Stock Version to Top Image-to-Video Leaderboard
A maker outranked by its own open-sourced weights shows that this cycle's gap lies in post-training craft, not the base model.
Fri, Aug 7
MiniMax Open-Sources Next-Gen Multimodal Model H3, Tops Hugging Face Trending Chart
Eight domestic chips adapted on the same day says more about what MiniMax has a grip on than a No. 1 spot on the leaderboard.
Tue, Aug 4
Alibaba prices Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per million tokens, open-sources weights next week
Open-sourcing the weights cedes pricing power; the only layer left to monetize is the engineering that makes the model run smoothly.
MiniMax Open-Sources 33B Video Model H3, Runs on a Single RTX 5090
The weights are out, but half the capability stays server-side — "open source" is being taken apart piece by piece.
Sat, Aug 1
MiniMax releases H3 video model with 2K resolution and native stereo sound, to open-source weights
For video, open source has caught up to the release week for the first time.