Saudi HUMAIN unveils humain-m3, a 428B Arabic frontier model built by MiniMax

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Saudi PIF company HUMAIN announced humain-m3 at LEAP in Riyadh: a 428B-parameter MoE built on the MiniMax-M3 lineage and further pre-trained on over one trillion tokens of Arabic-native content, claiming the best average score across seven public Arabic benchmarks. It is in research preview on HUMAIN Node, with weights slated for release under the MiniMax Community License after alignment work.

Why it matters

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Importance: 3/5

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Sources

official HUMAIN Unveils humain-m3, a Frontier Arabic Language Model Developed by MiniMax, in Research Preview on HUMAIN Node

media HUMAIN Launches humain-m3: Saudi Arabia's Arabic AI Runs on Chinese Weights, Scores Unverified