HUMAIN put out humain-m3 yesterday, their frontier Arabic model. The release says it was commissioned by HUMAIN and developed by MiniMax. Under the branding it’s a 428B mixture-of-experts on the MiniMax-M3 lineage, with roughly a trillion extra tokens of Arabic pretraining. HUMAIN is a PIF company, so this is the Saudi sovereign wealth fund’s flagship. I don’t think that’s a scandal. Training a frontier base model from scratch for one language is a terrible use of money and buying the lineage is the sane call. But the weights ship next month under the MiniMax Community License, so the licence terms on Saudi Arabia’s sovereign model get written in Shanghai. That’s the layer these programmes never seem to price. Their release has the benchmark numbers if you want them. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/humain-unveils-humain-m3-a-frontier-arabic-language-model-developed-by-minimax-in-research-preview-on-humain-node-302869158.html What I can’t tell is whether the other national programmes are any different underneath. submitted by /u/Servola-Journal
Originally posted by u/Servola-Journal on r/ArtificialInteligence