Inside China's AI

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MiniMax M3: The First Chinese AI Model That Can Work for 12 Hours Straight

MiniMax just shipped a model that sustains agent tasks for up to 12 hours. It's multimodal, it has a million-token context window, and the flagship tier costs roughly what you'd spend on Netflix. Here's what that actually means.