Testing K3 and Open Models: Reasoning Tokens Can Burn Entire Budgets
MaziyarPanahi · x · 2026-07-28
A developer reported that during testing, some models like MiniMax M3 consumed their entire token budget on reasoning, resulting in empty output. Out of 10 generations, only 8 were usable. K3 is currently hosted with weights not yet released, and its launch is less than 2 hours away.
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