MiniMax released M3.1 Flash as downloadable weights with 8-bit MXFP8 quantizationShrinking a model by storing its numbers less precisely — like rounding — so it runs faster and fits on smaller hardware, at a small quality cost.Full definition →, loadable via Transformers and vLLM. Engineers can self-host an AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → and coding oriented multimodalA model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.Full definition →mixture-of-expertsA model built from many specialist sub-networks where only a few activate per token, giving big-model capability at small-model running cost.Full definition → model under the MiniMax community license.
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multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.
mixture-of-experts — A model built from many specialist sub-networks where only a few activate per token, giving big-model capability at small-model running cost.
quantization — Shrinking a model by storing its numbers less precisely — like rounding — so it runs faster and fits on smaller hardware, at a small quality cost.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
