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MiniMax M3 open-weight release is now hosted on Hugging Face (announcement dated…

2026-06-12 · 15:34 UTC ·@ivanfioravanti ·0 min read

Brief

MiniMax M3, an "open-weight" model released 2026-06-12, is available on Hugging Face with about 428B parameters and roughly 23B activated parameters; the post links both the model weights and a sparse-attention paper. The author emphasizes urgency to download the files and says they need Starlink, suggesting the download is large or bandwidth-constrained.

Why it matters

MiniMax M3 open-weight release is now hosted on Hugging Face (announcement dated 2026-06-12).

Key details

  • Model specs claimed: ~428 billion total parameters with ~23 billion activated parameters; weights and a sparse-attention paper are linked (huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Min…, huggingface.co/papers/2606.1…).
  • Author expresses urgency to download the weights and needs Starlink, implying a very large download size or limited bandwidth.
Source evidence

I need to download these weights! I need Starlink!

MiniMax (official) (@MiniMax_AI)

MiniMax M3, Open-Weight, Now On Hugging Face , with only ~428B parameters and ~23B activated parameters

Weights:
huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Min…
MiniMax Sparse Attention:
huggingface.co/papers/2606.1…

— https://nitter.net/MiniMax_AI/status/2065436935188058208#m