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MiniMax M3.1 Flash, on more of your hardware. Quantizing a 428B model opens up more ways to run it locally. Lower-bit weights reduce the memory needed to load the model and the weight data moved during decoding. Making those savings useful takes careful calibration, efficient low-bit kernels, and hardware-aware placement of experts across GPU and system RAM. Thank you to the builders doing that work: • @UnslothAI @danielhanchen — 2-bit Dynamic GGUF weights at 143.9 GB, with calibration and fidelity testing across coding, tool use and other workloads. • @ViC305 — SAGE-EXL3, token-level fidelity measurements and a single-DGX-Spark recipe. • @PeasantSmith — Project Maya quants and expert offloading for local coding and tool use. • @MiaAI_lab — EXL3-EAQ quantization work. • @jundotkim + mlx-community — oQ quants and DSpark-powered decoding through oMLX on Apple Silicon. • @AIatAMD — Quark MXFP4 adapted for AMD Instinct. • @atomic_chat_hq — GGUFs for local desktop workflows. • @superalesha — custom inference work combining quantized weights, expert caching and system RAM on 4× RTX 3090. Every shared quant, kernel, measurement and recipe gives the next builder a better starting point. Thank you.