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Open Source For You · India · MiniMax ships M3, a Chinese open-weight model claiming frontier coding at one-twentieth the attention cost
Indian open-source view stressing that M3 is open-weight, not open-source: training code and inference operators stayed closed, so the 'open' label oversells what was actually released.
“M3 is open-weight, not open-source: MiniMax withheld training code and inference operators, stopping short of a full open commitment.”