MiniMax M3 Explained: The Sparse Attention Breakthrough

This article was originally published on GetYourDozAi. MiniMax M3 — the first open-weight model to combine frontier coding, a 1M-token context window, and native multimodal input (text + image + video). MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) — a novel mechanism that reduces compute by 28.4x at 1M context by