Drexel University

Sparse Coding Lab

The Sparse (SPiking And Recurrent SoftwarE) Coding Lab at Drexel’s College of Computing & Informatics explores AI frameworks that mimic how the mammalian brain senses and understands the world. The ...
techtimes

MiniMax M3 Open-Weight Coding Model: Frontier Claims, Unverified Benchmarks

a mobile phone's screen showing the logo of Chinese AI MiniMax in Beijing on January 21, 2026. WANG Zhao/Getty Images Shanghai-based MiniMax launched its M3 foundation model on Monday, June 1, 2026, ...
VentureBeat

MiniMax-M3 debuts, eclipsing GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmark performance for just 5-10% of the cost

At the core of the model's efficiency lies an architectural departure from classic Transformer networks. Standard attention mechanisms scale quadratically ($O(N^2 ...
TechCrunch

DeepSeek releases ‘sparse attention’ model that cuts API costs in half

Researchers at DeepSeek on Monday released a new experimental model called V3.2-exp, designed to have dramatically lower inference costs when used in long-context operations. DeepSeek announced the ...
Forbes

The Inference Economy: How Sparse Computing And Model Optimization Are Reshaping Enterprise AI Deployment

The AI industry stands at an inflection point. While the previous era pursued larger models—GPT-3's 175 billion parameters to PaLM's 540 billion—focus has shifted toward efficiency and economic ...