October 23, 2026

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash on Hugging Face: weights open, about 220 GB

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash weights opened on Oct 23, 2026: 428 billion parameters in total, 23 billion active per token. The files weigh about 220 GB in quantized form, and the model card does not state hardware requirements.

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