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Pasquale Pillitteri · Italy · MiniMax ships M3, a Chinese open-weight model claiming frontier coding at one-twentieth the attention cost
European framing of M3 as a Chinese open-weights challenger to GPT-5.5, weighing the appeal of cheap long-context coding against China's 2017 National Intelligence Law obligations on any prompt sent to MiniMax's API.
“China's 2017 intelligence law obliges MiniMax to assist state intelligence work, an obligation that applies to every prompt sent to its API, wherever the user sits.”