Models/press release/2026-10-19

MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash AI model, claiming major improvements and agentic capabilities

Chinese AI company MiniMax has launched its M3.1 Flash AI model, an update to its previous offering. The company claims the new model features major improvements and is an agentic model, with some reports detailing it as a 428B MoE model priced at $0.15 per million input tokens. These claims of performance and agentic capabilities originate from MiniMax itself.

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