Unsloth Shrinks MiniMax's 428B M3.1 Flash Model to Run Locally on 150GB RAM

Unsloth released 2-bit dynamic GGUF quantizations of MiniMax's 428B parameter M3.1 Flash model that reduce its footprint by 45% to 143.9GB and allow it to run locally on 150GB of RAM, retaining 91.5% top 1 token accuracy across seven domains. Independent evaluations showed lower coding benchmark results than MiniMax reported, with two outside tests recording a score of 26 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 compared to MiniMax's claimed 38. The local quantizations follow MiniMax's October 23 release of open weights for M3.1 Flash, a mixture-of-experts model that activates 23B parameters per token.