Compare MiniMax M3 vs. MiniMax Mavis

MiniMax M3 is a frontier open-weight AI model built for coding, agentic work, multimodal understanding, and ultra-long-context tasks. The model supports up to a 1 million token context window, allowing it to work across large codebases, long documents, logs, project histories, and complex task environments. MiniMax M3 introduces MiniMax Sparse Attention, a sparse attention architecture designed to make long-context processing more efficient. The model is natively multimodal, with training that supports deeper semantic fusion across text, image, and video inputs. It is designed to support software engineering tasks, repository analysis, terminal-style work, browser-style retrieval, tool use, and autonomous workflows. MiniMax M3 has a mixture-of-experts architecture with hundreds of billions of total parameters and a smaller activated parameter count for more efficient inference. Developers can use it for AI coding assistants, workflow automation, research agents, document analysis, visual reasoning, and enterprise AI systems. Its long-context capability makes it especially useful when tasks require many files, references, instructions, or interaction histories to stay available at once. MiniMax M3 helps teams build more capable AI agents that can understand larger problems, work across multiple modalities, and execute complex tasks with stronger context awareness.

MiniMax Mavis is an advanced AI agent system developed to automate complex workflows through coordinated collaboration between multiple intelligent agents. The platform represents a major evolution of the original MiniMax Agent product and introduces a new multi-agent architecture called Agent Teams. Instead of relying on a single AI assistant, Mavis enables teams of specialized agents to divide responsibilities, execute tasks simultaneously, and collaborate on long-duration projects. The system is designed to support research, software development, knowledge work, planning, content creation, and other business-critical processes. Mavis can maintain progress across extended workflows while reducing the interruptions and context limitations often associated with traditional AI assistants. The platform also integrates with MiniMax’s broader ecosystem of models and services, allowing users to leverage coding, multimodal, and automation capabilities from a single environment. Agent Teams can assign different roles and responsibilities to individual agents, improving efficiency and task specialization. The platform is intended to function as a digital AI assistant capable of handling increasingly sophisticated workflows with minimal supervision. By combining collaborative AI execution with long-context reasoning and automation, MiniMax Mavis helps users complete complex projects faster and more effectively.