MiniMax M2.5 Uses 10B Active Parameters per Token, Aiming for Cheaper Always-On Agents

MiniMax M2.5 hits about 80% on Sweetbench and runs near 100 tokens per second, helping teams deploy faster models on tighter budgets.
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MiniMax Unveils M2.5 Models to Cut Frontier AI Costs

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, based in Shanghai, has introduced a new M2.5 language model in two variants, positioning it as ...
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China’s MiniMax debuts M1 AI model that it says costs 200x less to train than OpenAI’s GPT-4

It’s becoming a familiar pattern: Every few months, an AI lab in China that most people in the U.S. have never heard of releases an AI model that upends conventional wisdom about the cost of training ...

China’s MiniMax releases cheap AI model 'designed for real-world productivity'

Company says it is 'first frontier model ... delivering on the promise of intelligence too cheap to meter' Chinese artificial ...
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MiniMax CEO predicts another 10x drop in AI inference costs within two years

MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie said inference costs for leading AI models could fall by another order of magnitude within one to two years, following a similar drop over the past year. Speaking at the 2025 ...
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MiniMax moves toward Hong Kong IPO as Chinese AI firms rush to go public

Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax is reportedly prepping for its initial public offering in Hong Kong, backed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. A ...