MiniMax
MiniMax M
Current
3.1
shipped 3w · 17 Oct 2026
Hybrid Lightning Attention multimodal mixture-of-experts with ultra-long context.
Specification
- Current
- 3.1
- Total params
- 220B–427B MoE
- Weights
- Open (Hugging Face)
- Origin
- China
Modalities: text, image
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96 days
±42d variance25 days
Shipped on 2026-10-173.8 drops/yr
2 observed intervals · limited history2027-01-21
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Version history
3 releases tracked
3.1
minor17 Oct 2026 · 3wMiniMax releases MiniMax-M3.1-Flash multimodal open weights on Hugging Face.
- 220B-parameter vision-language MoE optimized for fast long-context reasoning.
- Ships as open safetensors weights on Hugging Face.
First listedSpecific source link · unverified ↗3.0
major2 Jun 2026 · 5moMiniMax-M3 ships 427B multimodal MoE weights on Hugging Face.
- 427B-parameter native image-text-to-text architecture.
- Released with BF16 and MXFP8 weight checkpoints.
First listedSpecific source link · unverified ↗2.7
minor9 Apr 2026 · 7moMiniMax-M2.7 open-weight 228B MoE lands on Hugging Face.
- 228B-parameter text reasoning checkpoint preceding the M3 generation.
First listedSpecific source link · unverified ↗