MiniMax Research Head on M3 Model and Team Culture
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-18
MiniMax's head of research Olive shared the team's R&D dynamics and culture in a podcast.
- Model plans: M3 focuses on native multimodality and 1M token context, with potential to close gaps on Vibe Code Bench.
- R&D bottleneck: The biggest bottleneck in building models is talent, not compute.
- Team culture: Responded to rumors of 996 work schedule, revealing internal AI agent for tracking research papers.
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