MiniMax M3.1 Flash leaks smaller than V4.1 as compute scarcity pushes models downsize
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-19
Benchmark scores for MiniMax M3.1 Flash have leaked (unverified), and analyst teortaxesTex notes the model appears even smaller than V4.1 — part of a broader trend: DeepSeek's strongest model today has fewer total and active params than V3 from Dec 2024, and MiniMax's M1 (Jun '25) was 456B/46B active. The argument: compute scarcity is real, with resources reallocated from bigger pretraining to RL.
Related event: Analysts See Compute Scarcity Shrinking Model Sizes(2 posts)→
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