Chinese AI company MiniMax on June 1, 2026, launched M3, its new flagship model focused on code generation and autonomous agentic tasks. [4, 6] The model features a one-million-token context window and is natively multimodal, designed to handle complex programming projects and automated workflows with significantly reduced computational costs. [3, 6]
MiniMax claims M3 surpasses leading models from OpenAI and Google on specific coding benchmarks and outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.7 on at least one agent-based benchmark. [3, 4, 6] The release, accompanied by an aggressive pricing strategy, aims to undercut established US competitors and highlights intensifying global competition and price pressure in the AI sector. [13, 20]