MiniMax M3: Release Date, Sparse Attention, and What to Expect” featuring bold yellow and white text beside a glowing MiniMax M3 chip on a dark neon tech background. Orange, purple, and blue speed trails emphasize the model’s claimed faster prefill, faster decoding, and next-generation AI flagship positioning.

MiniMax M3: Release Date, Sparse Attention, and What to Expect from China’s Next AI Flagship

In late May 2026, MiniMax’s Head of Engineering, Skyler Miao, broke cover with the first technical preview of MiniMax M3, the Shanghai lab’s next flagship language model. The pitch is sharp: 9.7× faster prefill and 15.6× faster decoding at 1-million-token context versus the current MiniMax-M2.7. The trick is reintroducing sparse attention, an architecture MiniMax explicitly […]

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Le nouveau modèle chinois Kimi K2 Thinking se classe #1 dans de nombreux tests de performance

Le 6 novembre 2025, Moonshot AI, soutenu par Alibaba, a publié Kimi K2 Thinking, son modèle open-source le plus avancé à ce jour. Il s'agit de la première variante axée sur le raisonnement de la famille Kimi K2, qui marque une avancée majeure dans le domaine du raisonnement en contexte long et en plusieurs étapes, ainsi que dans l'utilisation autonome d'outils. Kimi K2 Thinking a immédiatement fait les gros titres pour ses performances : il a atteint de nouveaux scores sur plusieurs benchmarks ouverts, dont Humanity's Last [...]

Promotional image for Kimi K2‑0905, an open-source AI model by China’s Moonshot AI. The image features a bold Kimi logo on a blue gradient background, with the text: “China’s Kimi K2‑0905 just dropped and it’s crushing competition.” The word "Kimi K2‑0905" is highlighted in yellow to emphasize the model name.

China’s Moonshot AI Dropped Kimi K2 (0905) – The Open-Source Model Crushing the Competition

Moonshot AI, Chinese startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, is rolling out an upgraded version of its open‑weight open-source large language model, Kimi K2. The new build Kimi K2‑0905, introduces a 256,000-token context window, improved coding performance, and retains its permissive modified MIT license. Although early beta access was briefly mentioned on the company’s Discord […]