MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash for agents: claimed to be three times faster than its predecessor, weights promised for October 23
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If the claims hold up, a fast and cheap model for agents will also become more accessible in open form.
According to MiniMax, the model's inference speed rose almost threefold and its cost in agent scenarios fell by 70%; generation reaches up to 200 tokens per second. The API costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. Before the announcement the model ran anonymously under the name "Space Bunny" and, in the company's words, processed more than 200 trillion tokens. Results on AutomationBench, DeepSWE v1.1, Agents' Last Exam and BabyVision were published by MiniMax itself. The company set the release of the weights for October 23.
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