Build Your Own 24/7 AI Worker With MiniMax

You can run your whole business on Claude, but the one thing it cannot do is keep working after you close your laptop. A MiniMax cloud agent can. You give it a task, it runs in the cloud, and it finishes while you sleep. This is the exact setup, powered by M3, the number 1 open source model. Plain English, no coding.

What You'll Learn

• What a MiniMax cloud agent is and why it keeps working with your laptop off
• The 3 click setup: MiniMax Code, the M3 model, your first cloud agent
• A copy paste task prompt to put it to work tonight
• M3 highlights, the token plans, and the 12% discount

Cloud agent vs desktop: two modes. The CLOUD agent runs on MiniMax's servers 24/7, so it keeps going with your computer off (this is the one this guide sets up). The DESKTOP app can also take over your own computer directly, but that needs your machine on. Use the cloud agent for set it and forget it work.

What An AI Worker Actually Is

A cloud agent is an AI you hand a job to once, that then runs on its own until it is done. No babysitting, no keeping your laptop open.

1. It runs in the cloud. On MiniMax's servers, so it keeps working after you log off or shut down.
2. It does the whole task. Browses the web, pulls what it needs, and builds the actual output, not just a chat reply.
3. It is powered by M3. The model doing the thinking is M3, the number 1 open source model out right now (Artificial Analysis).

Why M3 Is The Engine

The agent is only as good as the model behind it. M3 is the first open weights model to combine three frontier abilities at once:

• Frontier coding + agentic skill, so it can actually build and execute, not just talk
• A 1 million token context window, so it holds a whole project in its head with no chunking
• Native multimodal, so it works across text, images, and more in one chain
• On web research it beats Claude's Opus (BrowseComp 83.5 vs 79.3), which is why it is so good at going and finding things itself

The 3 Click Setup

1. Get MiniMax Code. Download the desktop app at agent.minimax.io/download, or open the web app, and sign in.
2. Pick the M3 model. Select M3 as the model so your agent runs on the frontier engine.
3. Set up a cloud agent. Create a cloud agent so the work runs on MiniMax's servers, not your machine.
4. Give it a task and walk away. Paste a task (template below), kick it off, and close your laptop. Come back to it done.

Checklist:

• MiniMax Code installed / opened and signed in
• M3 selected as the model
• A cloud agent created
• First task running, laptop closed

Put It To Work (Copy Paste)

Here is a real task to run tonight. Swap in your own business. This is the kind of job that runs start to finish while you sleep.

You're my operations agent. Every night, do this and have it
ready before I wake up:
1. Pull yesterday's numbers for my business (sales, orders, ad
spend, and ROAS) from the accounts I've connected.
2. Check my top 3 competitors' sites for anything new.
3. Build one clean, mobile-friendly report: big number cards up
top, a 7-day trend chart, and a short 'what changed' summary.
4. Save it and have it waiting for me in the morning.
Double-check every number against the source. If something's
missing, note it instead of guessing. Keep going until it's done.

Other jobs people run on it:

• A morning research brief on any topic or competitor
• Turn a long video or doc into clips, posts, and captions
• Clean up and reply to an inbox, then organize the files
• Monitor a list of sites and report what changed overnight

The Plans (12% Off)

MiniMax Token Plans, with 12% off any tier through the creator's discount link:

1. Plus, $20/mo: about 1.7 billion tokens of M3 a month. Way more usage than Claude gives you at that price.
2. Max, $50/mo: about 5.1 billion tokens a month for heavier, always on workloads.
3. Ultra, $120/mo: about 9.8 billion tokens a month. Text, image, speech, and music all share the pool.

Cheaper than a VA: a part time virtual assistant runs hundreds to thousands a month. A cloud agent that works around the clock starts at twenty bucks. That is the whole point.

Your First Night

1. Install MiniMax Code and sign in
2. Pick M3 as the model
3. Set up your first cloud agent
4. Paste the task prompt and swap in your business
5. Kick it off and close your laptop
6. Check the finished work in the morning
7. Keep the one task that saved you the most time, then add another

The goal is not to do more yourself. It is to hand the repeatable work to an agent that never clocks out, so you wake up further ahead than when you went to bed.

Go Deeper

Prefer a printable version? Grab the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1drjeboYQfuTbdl045rVjASzUlpmn3VoK/view?usp=drivesdk

Want the whole system installed live, with Cooper on the call? Build Your Own AI, the two week sprint runs the first two weeks of August.

Or get a new working tool every Monday inside The AI Operator community on Whop.