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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 ...
VentureBeat

MiniMax-M1 is a new open source model with 1 MILLION TOKEN context and new, hyper efficient reinforcement learning

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, perhaps best known in the West for its hit realistic AI video model Hailuo, has released its latest large language model, MiniMax-M1 — and in great news for enterprises and ...
Geeky Gadgets

MiniMax M2.1 vs Gemini 3 Flash : Smarter Planning and Tools at Lower AI Costs

What if the next big leap in AI wasn’t locked behind corporate paywalls but was instead freely available for anyone to explore, adapt, and innovate with? That’s exactly the promise of MiniMax M2.1, ...
TechNode

MiniMax releases M2 open-source model , offering double speed at 8% of Claude Sonnet’s price

China-based AI startup MiniMax has launched its open-source large language model, MiniMax M2, built specifically for agent workflows and coding tasks. The model is said to deliver twice the inference ...