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Braid Daily · 2026-06-01

MiniMax M3 lands: open weights, 1M-token context, agentic-coding scores

Published benchmarks for coding and agentic work, plus a million-token window — MiniMax's new open-weights model.

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MiniMax released M3, an open-weights model, with published coding and agentic benchmark scores and a one-million-token context window. It lands squarely on the frontier-model and agentic-tooling threads we've been tracking.

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Primary signals

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@runwayml (Runway)

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Runway, NVIDIA, and a set of AI labs formed the Cosmos Coalition to build frontier models for physical-world AI — a concrete bet on who controls that infrastructure.

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