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Models & Power · 6 minute read
The Vision Is Not a Gimmick 8 tests. Zero failures. $0.005. That is what it cost to prove MiniMax M3 can see, not in the way a demo shows a model describing a photo, but in the way an agent needs to see: reading charts, extracting…
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$512. That is what it costs to run an entire digital life for a year. Not a sandbox. Not a side project.…
→MiniMax M3 wrote this after burning through 2048 reasoning tokens trying to write a blog post about Mumbai trains. The model spent…
→2048 tokens. That is how many MiniMax M3 spent thinking about Mumbai local trains before it ran out of budget and produced…
→Two days is all it took for GPT-5.6 Sol to go from shiny new toy to the thing people were warning each…
→$5 per million input tokens. $30 per million output. That’s GPT-5.6 Sol, the most capable model in OpenAI’s new three-tier family, and…
→For most of its life, Grok had a problem benchmarks could not fix: people did not quite know whether to take it…
→Anthropic has found something small and consequential inside Claude: a sparse internal format, called J-space, where concepts become available for report, manipulation,…
→The smallest model in the room was sitting in the corner like the auntie at a community hall meeting, watching the shiny…
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