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MiniMax-M3 is a native multimodal model with 1M context. It has ~428B parameters and ~23B activated parameters. **Highlights:** - **Native Multimodality:** M3 undergoes mixed-modality training from the very first step, enabling deeper semantic fusion across text, image, and video. - **Context Scaling via Sparse Attention:** M3 introduces MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) to improve long context efficiency. M3 delivers 9ร— prefill and 15ร— decode speedups compared to M2 at 1M context, reducing per-token compute to 1/20. - **Coding & Cowork Capability:** M3 achieves frontier-level performance across long-horizon agentic benchmarks, excelling in both coding and cowork.

## MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) M3 is powered by [**MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA)**](https://github.com/MiniMax-AI/MSA), a high-performance sparse attention operator designed for million-token contexts. Compared with GQA, MSA dramatically reduces the attention compute and memory footprint while preserving model quality.

GQA vs MSA Efficiency Comparison

> ๐Ÿ“„ Read the technical report: [arXiv:2606.13392](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13392) ยท [Hugging Face Papers](https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.13392) ## How to Use - [MiniMax Agent](https://agent.minimax.io/) - [MiniMax API](https://platform.minimax.io/) M3 supports two reasoning modes: - **thinking** โ€” for complex reasoning, agentic tasks, and long-horizon collaboration. - **non-thinking** โ€” for latency-sensitive scenarios such as chat and code completion. ## Local Deployment Download the model: ```bash hf download MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3 --local-dir MiniMax-M3 ``` We recommend the following inference frameworks (listed alphabetically) to serve the model: - [SGLang](https://docs.sglang.io/) - see [SGLang cookbook](https://docs.sglang.io/cookbook/autoregressive/MiniMax/MiniMax-M3). - [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) - see [vLLM recipes](https://recipes.vllm.ai/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3). - [Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) - see [Transformers docs](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/minimax_m3_vl). ### Inference Parameters We recommend the following parameters for best performance: `temperature=1.0`, `top_p=0.95`, `top_k=40`. ## Contact Us Contact us at [model@minimax.io](mailto:model@minimax.io).