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China's MiniMax launches updated AI model M3.1 Flash, claims major improvements

Chinese AI startup MiniMax released an updated version of its M3.1 Flash AI model on Monday, saying the update brings "generational" improvements in agentic tasks, programming and cybersecurity. MiniMax said online inference speed has nearly tripled and usage costs have been cut by 70%.

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China's MiniMax launches updated AI model M3.1 Flash, claims major improvements
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BEIJING, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Chinese AI startup MiniMax launched an updated version of AI model M3.1 Flash, it said in a statement on Monday.

The company said the updated model delivers "generational" improvements in areas such as agentic tasks, programming and cybersecurity, and that its online inference speed has nearly tripled while usage costs have been reduced by 70%.

(Reporting by Yukun Zhang, Shi Bu and Ryan Woo; Editing by Louise Heavens)

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