Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7 (Juro Osawa/The Information)

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MiniMax launched M3, a low-cost coding model it claims approaches Claude Opus 4.7-level coding performance.

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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260601/p26#a260601p26" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Juro Osawa / <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chinas-minimax-launches-new-model-open-source-ai-coding-battle-heats">Chinese AI developer MiniMax launches M3, a new coding model that it says rivals Opus 4.7, costing $0.12 per 1M input tokens, compared with $5 for Opus 4.7</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Chinese AI developer MiniMax on Monday launched a new large language model called M3, saying the new model's coding capability approaches &hellip; </p>

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