# MiniMax — MiniMax M3: Frontier Coding, 1M Context, Native Multimodality — All in One Model

- Company: MiniMax (minimax.io)
- Announced: 2026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: MiniMax models
- Models affected: M3
- License: open-source
- Context window: 1M context
- Source: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m3
- Record: https://forck.live/items/3396-minimax-m3-frontier-coding-1m-context-native-multimodality-all-in-one-model

MiniMax announces M3, a new model that reaches frontier capability on coding and agentic tasks, introduces MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) supporting up to 1M context, and is natively multimodal. It is described as the only domestic model combining all three frontier essentials and will be the only open-source one in this class.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m3:

> M3 reaches frontier capability on coding and agentic tasks, introduces the brand-new MSA (MiniMax Sparse Attention) supporting up to 1M context, and is a natively multimodal model. It is the only domestic model combining all three Frontier essentials and will be the only open-source one in this class.

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