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MiniMax Just Open-Sourced a 428B Coding Model — Can You Actually Run It?

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MiniMax just dropped the open weights for a 428B-parameter coding and agent model — and the fine print matters more than the headline. M3.1 Flash went live on MiniMax's API on October 19, and the weights followed on October 23 via Hugging Face and ModelScope. The numbers are genuinely impressive: 4…

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  1. 2026-10-23 17:49 · DEV Community — AI
    MiniMax Just Open-Sourced a 428B Coding Model — Can You Actually Run It?

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