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The latest MiniMax news, : MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model at $0.15 per million input tokens with weights due October 23.

MiniMax is an AI company that released the M3.1 Flash model on October 19, 2026. The model features 428 billion total parameters with 23 billion active parameters in a mixture-of-experts architecture. It is available via API, M Plan, and the MiniMax Code desktop app at a cost of $0.15 per 1M input tokens.

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  1. MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model at $0.15 per million input tokens with weights due October 23

    MiniMax has released the M3.1 Flash, a 428B parameter mixture-of-experts model with ~23B active parameters and a 1 million token context window. The model is priced at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per…

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    Anthropic says new defenses cut Claude reasoning data harvested by distillers by 90 to 99 percent

    Anthropic announced that its expanded defenses against distillation attacks have reduced the amount of Claude reasoning data harvested by attackers by approximately 90% to 99%. The company described distillation…

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    Z.ai shares drop over 10% after announcing $5 billion fundraising round

    Z.ai, a Beijing‑based artificial‑intelligence firm, disclosed a plan to raise roughly $5 billion through a new share placement and a zero‑coupon convertible bond issue. The company will sell up to 21.97 million new…

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  4. Anthropic reveals industrial-scale Claude distillation attacks by seven Chinese AI labs

    Anthropic has disclosed that seven China-based AI laboratories, including Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot, conducted large-scale illicit distillation campaigns against its Claude models. These operations, detected…

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  5. Policy & Regulation new

    US agencies accuse six Chinese AI firms of large‑scale model theft

    U.S. intelligence agencies — the NSA, CISA and the FBI — released a joint statement alleging that six Chinese artificial‑intelligence companies have been systematically extracting capabilities from leading American…

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As of 19 October 2026: MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model at $0.15 per million input tokens with weights due October 23. MiniMax has released the M3.1 Flash, a 428B parameter mixture-of-experts model with ~23B active parameters and a 1 million token context window.

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MiniMax is an AI company that released the M3.1 Flash model on October 19, 2026. The model features 428 billion total parameters with 23 billion active parameters in a mixture-of-experts architecture. It is available via API, M Plan, and the MiniMax Code desktop app at a cost of $0.15 per 1M input tokens.

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