MiniMax's head of engineering just hinted M3 is going open source. anyone got a release date?
Saw this on X last night and figured I'd flag it in case people missed it. Skyler Miao (head of engineering at MiniMax, blue check) posted "Open source incoming with M3 😎". Same day the MiniMaxAgent account spelled it out a bit more, saying Teams, Mavis, all of it is going open source too.
Did I miss an official date somewhere? I've seen people guessing end of may but I can't find an actual announcement, just the tweets.
The thing I'm actually curious about. I tried M2.7 on and off and the biggest gripe I had (and I've seen others on here say the same) is instruction following. You tell it to make a plan and wait, it half-plans then just starts coding. You tell it to leave a file alone, it edits the file. Anyone know if M3 is supposed to fix that specifically, or is that more of a runtime / agent layer problem?
Also curious where you all think M3 actually gets stronger. If you had to bet:
- raw reasoning?
- agent loops / tool use?
- long context?
- something nobody's talking about yet?
License, weight size, benchmarks, none of it announced as far as I can tell. Just wanted to surface the signal and see where folks here think this lands.