What are the hardware requirements for MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit?

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit requires approximately 186.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit and how large is it?

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 426.2b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit?

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit by mlx-community — VRAM 186.8GB

Name: MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit
Author: mlx-community

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 426.2b LLM, VRAM: 186.8GB, License: other, Quantized.

3-bit 3bit Agent Base model:minimaxai/minimax-m... Base model:quantized:minimaxai... Coding Conversational Custom code Minimax m3 vl Mlx Moe Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-Text-3bit

MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	MiniMax M3.1 Flash Text 3bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash-Text-3bit
Base Model(s)	MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
Model Size	426.2b
Required VRAM	186.8 GB
Updated	2026-10-27
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	minimax_m3_vl
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-36 5.4 GB: 2-of-36 5.3 GB: 3-of-36 5.4 GB: 4-of-36 5.4 GB: 5-of-36 4.5 GB: 6-of-36 5.4 GB: 7-of-36 5.3 GB: 8-of-36 5.4 GB: 9-of-36 5.4 GB: 10-of-36 4.5 GB: 11-of-36 5.4 GB: 12-of-36 5.3 GB: 13-of-36 5.4 GB: 14-of-36 5.4 GB: 15-of-36 4.5 GB: 16-of-36 5.4 GB: 17-of-36 5.3 GB: 18-of-36 5.4 GB: 19-of-36 5.4 GB: 20-of-36 4.5 GB: 21-of-36 5.4 GB: 22-of-36 5.3 GB: 23-of-36 5.4 GB: 24-of-36 5.4 GB: 25-of-36 4.5 GB: 26-of-36 5.4 GB: 27-of-36 5.3 GB: 28-of-36 5.4 GB: 29-of-36 5.4 GB: 30-of-36 4.5 GB: 31-of-36 5.4 GB: 32-of-36 5.3 GB: 33-of-36 5.4 GB: 34-of-36 5.4 GB: 35-of-36 4.0 GB: 36-of-36
Quantization Type	3bit
Model Architecture	MiniMaxM3SparseForConditionalGeneration
License	other
Model Max Length	40960000
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	]!p~[
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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