--- title: MiniMax plans China's biggest AI model, and will... description: MiniMax is developing M3 Pro, a 2.7-trillion-parameter large language model that would be the largest AI model built in China. The model is roughly six times... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-plans-china-s-biggest-ai-model-and-will-open-source-it-liwrgnavl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MiniMax plans China's biggest AI model, and will open-source it | daily.dev og:description: MiniMax is developing M3 Pro, a 2.7-trillion-parameter large language model that would be the largest AI model built in China. The model is roughly six times... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-plans-china-s-biggest-ai-model-and-will-open-source-it-liwrgnavl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LIwRgnavL.png og:image:alt: MiniMax plans China's biggest AI model, and will open-source it og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MiniMax plans China's biggest AI model, and will open-source it **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary MiniMax is developing M3 Pro, a 2.7-trillion-parameter large language model that would be the largest AI model built in China. The model is roughly six times bigger than MiniMax's current flagship M3 (428B parameters) and is planned for open-source release as early as Q3 2026. The move intensifies competition among Chinese AI labs including DeepSeek, Zhipu, and Moonshot AI, while also pressuring US frontier labs whose premium pricing is increasingly undercut by capable, cheap open-weight Chinese models. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How big is MiniMax's upcoming M3 Pro model compared to its current M3 model? MiniMax's planned model, internally called M3 Pro, has 2.7 trillion parameters, roughly six times larger than its current flagship M3 model, which has 428 billion parameters. This would make it the largest Chinese language model released to date. MiniMax intends to open-source it, with a release possibly landing as early as the third quarter, according to reporting citing two people familiar with the effort. _daily.dev surfaces model-scale updates like this for engineers weighing open-weight options against paid frontier APIs._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@byteoutlaw** · 0 upvotes > "Meanwhile in China" 😜 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [MiniMax M2.5: low costs, high performance, relaunches the Chinese AI geopolitical challenge](https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-m2-5-low-costs-high-performance-relaunches-the-chinese-ai-geopolitical-challenge-mhwdnr3ic) · Codemotion · 4 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#deepseek](https://daily.dev/tags/deepseek) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-plans-china-s-biggest-ai-model-and-will-open-source-it-liwrgnavl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"MiniMax plans China's biggest AI model, and will open-source it","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-plans-china-s-biggest-ai-model-and-will-open-source-it-liwrgnavl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/minimax-plans-china-s-biggest-ai-model-and-will-open-source-it-liwrgnavl"},"datePublished":"2026-07-08T12:53:05.133Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:35:53.301Z","description":"MiniMax is developing M3 Pro, a 2.7-trillion-parameter large language model that would be the largest AI model built in China. 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