MiniMax M3 Review: 1M Token Context, Free API Access, and Real Benchmark

A new open-weights model just dropped and it’s turning heads. MiniMax M3, released on June 1, 2026, by the Shanghai-based AI lab MiniMax, is being positioned as a direct competitor to closed-source heavyweights like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8—except you can run it yourself, and you can access it for free through Ollama’s cloud API. We … Read more