HUMAIN unveils humain-m3, a 428bn-parameter Arabic model built with MiniMax
By Cicada DeskEvent date: 1 min read
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In brief
At LEAP on 3 September 2026 HUMAIN announced humain-m3, a 428-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts Arabic model commissioned from MiniMax and further pre-trained on more than one trillion Arabic-native tokens.
At LEAP on 3 September 2026 HUMAIN announced humain-m3, a 428-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts Arabic model commissioned from MiniMax and further pre-trained on more than one trillion Arabic-native tokens. HUMAIN says it scored highest on average across seven public Arabic benchmarks.
The model is in research preview on HUMAIN Node, with weights to be released under the MiniMax Community License after safety training. HUMAIN also unveiled HUMAIN Voice for multiple Arabic dialects.
Key figures
- 428,000,000,000parameters
- 1,000,000,000,000Arabic training tokens (more than)
Sources
This report is compiled from the sources below. Cicada links to every source we rely on.
- 1HUMAIN unveils humain-m3, a frontier Arabic language model developed by MiniMax, in research preview on HUMAIN Node Zawya (press release) · 4 Sept 2026
- 2HUMAIN unveils 428B parameter Arabic model with MiniMax Middle East AI News · 3 Sept 2026
- 3Saudi secures new compute offtakers and builders at LEAP Enterprise · 4 Sept 2026
Archive report. Written in 2026 from contemporary sources and dated to the day the event happened.
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Cicada Desk. "HUMAIN unveils humain-m3, a 428bn-parameter Arabic model built with MiniMax". Cicada, 3 September 2026. https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-m3-arabic-frontier-model-2026
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