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 […]

A group of AI safety activists protest in front of a modern glass building labeled “OpenAI” in Silicon Valley. Protesters hold cardboard signs that read “ETHICS OVER PROFIT” and “AI NEEDS REGULATION.” One woman speaks passionately into a megaphone. A drone hovers above the crowd, and people appear serious and determined. Bold white and yellow text over the image reads: “10 Days Without Food To Stop AGI?” The scene conveys urgency and resistance against unchecked AI development.

Anti-AI Activists on Hunger Strike At Anthropic and DeepMind

Two Anti-AI activists are currently more than 10 days into hunger strikes outside major AI company headquarters, refusing to eat until their demands about artificial intelligence development are heard. Guido Reichstadter has been camped outside Anthropic’s offices while Michael Trazzi protests at DeepMind, both arguing that the path toward artificial general intelligence poses existential threats […]

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What Is Google’s Secret Nano Banana AI? Here’s How You Can Test It

A mysterious AI image generator called Nano Banana has been quietly dominating blind tests on LMArena, consistently outperforming established models in head-to-head comparisons. What started as anonymous wins in online testing platforms has evolved into something a lot bigger – with industry insiders and former Google employees now openly discussing it as Google’s next major […]