Exploring Next
Exploring Next — Ep 461 w/ Justy & Cody — MiniMax M3 debuts, eclipsing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmark performance for just 5-10% of the cost
Justy and Cody react to MiniMax-M3’s launch: frontier-tier coding and agentic performance with a 1M-token context window at 5–10% the cost of GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro, with open weights coming in 10 days. Cody digs into the MiniMax Sparse Attention (MSA) architecture that cuts quadratic attention costs, while Justy debates who this actually changes things for in practice.