핵심 요약
가성비 개쩌는 MiniMax M3가 출시됐는데 코딩, 100만 컨텍스트, 멀티모달을 다 지원하면서 가격은 거의 공짜 수준이다. 빡센 게임 빌드 테스트를 시켜보니까 지 혼자 에러 복구하고 모바일 화면 테스트까지 돌리는 기염을 토했다. 성능도 Opus나 GPT-5.5 급으로 잘 나와서 일상 작업의 80%는 그냥 이거 쓰는 게 개이득이다.
주요 포인트
- MiniMax M3는 코딩 능력, 100만 토큰 컨텍스트, 멀티모달을 다 때려 박았는데 실행 비용이 깡패 수준으로 저렴함.
- 빡센 아케이드 게임 제작을 시켰더니 스스로 에러를 복구하고 헤드리스 브라우저랑 아이폰 뷰포트에서 터치 작동 테스트까지 알아서 검증함.
- SWE Bench Pro 59%, MCP Atlas 74% 등 각종 벤치마크에서 기존 대장급인 Opus 4.7 등을 이겨버릴 정도로 뛰어난 성능을 보여줌.
- Opus 4.8이나 GPT 5.5도 좋긴 한데 가성비 생각하면 일상 개발 업무의 80%는 Hermes 안에서 M3 쓰는 게 훨씬 스마트한 선택임.
MiniMax M3 just launched and it might be the most important model release of the year for one reason that almost nobody is talking about. It is the first model to bring all three of the big things to the open world at once. Frontier level coding, a 1 million token context window, and fully multimodal all-in-one model. And the insane part is that it costs almost nothing to run. So, I did the obvious thing. I took a pretty brutal and complex build and I just gave it a MiniMax M3. Now, one of the tests that I'm providing it, I wanted a real one-shot build with just 100 different ways to be doing it poorly, so I asked for a game. So, what I'm saying is build a complete polished arcade game. I'm going to run this off, but just so you know what I actually asked for, it's just going to be a neon wave survival shooter. So, the whole thing in one HTML file, no libraries, no build steps. So, it has to just be run by just double-clicking it. So, it's going to be 60 frames a second on a canvas. So, as you would expect, we're running this with MiniMax M3 on high, but we're also going to be comparing this with Opus 4.8. Now, we have M3. It took the most steps of the three. So, there's 17 steps here, and at one point a step failed and it just recovered on its own and it kept on going. But, watch what it did at the end. So, it tested its own game in a real headless browser. There's zero errors, and then it checked it on a phone screen, too. So, an iPhone viewport just to make sure that the touch controls actually worked. Nobody told it to do that. The cheapest model in this entire test is the one that checked its own work the hardest. And on M3's $20 plan, it's just a simple rounding error, so it's literally just pennies where you'd have to do this hundreds of times to even make a dent. So, on SWE Bench Pro, which is just real-world software engineering, it hits 59% on Terminal Bench, that's 66. On MCP Atlas, which is basically how well it uses tools, 74% and on Browse Comp, which is just web research, it scores an 83.5 and that actually beats Opus 4.7's 79. Opus 4.8, GPT 5.5, it's fantastic, it's fast, it's clean. I still reach for it when I'm already living in it, But the truth for maybe about 80% of what I actually do in a day, M3 inside of Hermes is the smart move here.