# From Lightning to Sparse: How MiniMax M3 Reads a Million Tokens Without Reading Them All

> Source: <https://pub.towardsai.net/from-lightning-to-sparse-how-minimax-m3-reads-a-million-tokens-without-reading-them-all-9c702203326d?source=rss----98111c9905da---4>
> Published: 2026-06-21 05:50:05+00:00

A concept-first tour of MiniMax Sparse Attention — why “efficient attention” kept failing in production, and the surprisingly simple idea…
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