MiniMax
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MiniMax is a Chinese AI company that develops large language models, including the M2.7 open model which claims GLM-5-level performance at roughly one-third the cost and introduces self-evolution training capabilities.
What I’ve been building: ATOM Report, post-training course, finishing my book, and ongoing research
The Relative Adoption Metric reveals Gemma 4 and Chinese models (Moonshot, Z.ai) gaining traction in the open LLM market, shifting adoption dynamics away from GPT-OSS dominance.
China went from uninvestable to unavoidable—and Hong Kong is cashing in with a slew of AI-centric IPOs
Hong Kong's AI IPO market surged to $14B in Q1 2026 (up 490% YoY), with frontier labs MiniMax and Z.ai generating 500%+ and 700%+ returns, positioning China as a premier AI capital hub to rival Nasdaq.
MiniMax M2.7 Is Now Open Source
MiniMax M2.7 autonomously improved itself 30% over 100+ unsupervised iterations, reaching Opus 4.6-competitive reasoning and GPT-5.3-Codex-matching code benchmarks, now open-sourced on HuggingFace.
The inevitable need for an open model consortium
Economic pressures on R&D and talent are consolidating open-source model development toward industry consortiums like Nvidia's Coalition/Nemotron, while Chinese startups (Moonshot AI, MiniMax) face mounting strain and the market shifts toward fine-tunable models over competitive frontiers.
[AINews] MiniMax 2.7: GLM-5 at 1/3 cost SOTA Open Model