LLMs & Models5 min read
Open-source AI
China's MiniMax just open-sourced a 1M-token model that outruns GPT-5.5 on real coding tasks
MiniMax M3 is the first Chinese open-source model to combine native multimodality, 1M-token context, and advanced agentic coding. Its structured approach to scale, including a new attention architecture called MSA, challenges the assumption that open models must trail behind proprietary systems.
2026-07-09