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## Short Segments MiniMax has unveiled its M3.1 Flash model, a 428 billion parameter AI tool, now available at $0.15 per million input tokens. This release promises near-frontier performance in agentic office tasks at a fraction of the cost. Developers can access the model through the MiniMax API, with model weights expected later this month. The M3.1 Flash is designed for coding, office work, and visual reasoning, offering a massive 1,000,000-token context window. While it excels in automation tasks, it shows mid-range performance in complex coding challenges. This launch signals a…
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