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Chinese AI company MiniMax has released a quick, lighter assistant that can read pictures and handle coding and multi-step tasks, available through OpenRouter: A service that gives developers one place to use hundreds of models from many labs. New models often appear there early, sometimes anonymously..
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Epoch Capabilities Index · Epoch AI
Only MiniMax-M3 is in this ranking.
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LMArena WebDev · LMArena
In blind votes, people pick MiniMax M3.1 Flash over MiniMax-M3 about 64% of the time.
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