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title: "HUMAIN unveils humain-m3, a 428bn-parameter Arabic model built with MiniMax"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-m3-arabic-frontier-model-2026"
language: "en"
event_date: "2026-09-03"
published: "2026-10-03"
last_verified: "2026-10-03"
category: "AI"
publisher: "Cicada (cicadaconsultancy.online)"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# HUMAIN unveils humain-m3, a 428bn-parameter Arabic model built with MiniMax

- Event date: 3 September 2026 (2026-09-03)
- Topic: AI
- In this story: HUMAIN, MiniMax, humain-m3, HUMAIN Voice
- URL: https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/humain-m3-arabic-frontier-model-2026

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

- parameters: 428,000,000,000
- Arabic training tokens (more than): 1,000,000,000,000

## Sources

1. [HUMAIN unveils humain-m3, a frontier Arabic language model developed by MiniMax, in research preview on HUMAIN Node](https://www.zawya.com/en/press-release/companies-news/humain-unveils-humain-m3-a-frontier-arabic-language-model-developed-by-minimax-in-research-preview-on-humain-node-478053) — Zawya (press release), 2026-09-04
2. [HUMAIN unveils 428B parameter Arabic model with MiniMax](https://www.middleeastainews.com/p/humain-unveils-428b-parameter-arabic) — Middle East AI News, 2026-09-03
3. [Saudi secures new compute offtakers and builders at LEAP](https://enterpriseam.com/menaplus/2026/09/04/saudi-secures-new-compute-offtakers-and-builders-at-leap/) — Enterprise, 2026-09-04

Archive report. Written in 2026 from contemporary sources and dated to the day the event happened.

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