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MiniMax M3

A startup just gave away a frontier-level coding AI for free. Kind of.

MiniMax M3 beats GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding. Lands right behind Claude Opus 4.7. And yes, you can use it today through their API for a fraction of what the big models charge.

The catch? Downloading and self-hosting it costs $2,500+ in hardware minimum. But you don’t need that. Hit the API, skip the server bill, get the same power.

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