François Fleuret: MiniMax runs well on a $500 16GB 4060Ti when you prompt per the docs
francoisfleuret · x · 2026-09-14
AI researcher François Fleuret reports that following MiniMax's official documentation for prompting actually works very well — on just a $500 RTX 4060 Ti with 16GB VRAM. A data point for both prompt-format adherence and local deployment on mid-range consumer GPUs.
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