Open-source releaseModerate global significanceConfirmed confidence
MiniMax releases MiniMax-M1
MiniMax releases a new foundation model that unifies text features and multimodal visual features.
What happened
Event details
MiniMax released MiniMax-M1 on June 16, 2025. It has 456B MoE parameters with 45.9B active parameters, is open source and is classified as a mixture-of-experts Transformer; the official MiniMax-M1 release page is the primary source.
Assessment
Why it matters
An open-source model release with a documented model family, parameter scale or access condition.
67/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.
Availability
Access notes
Publicly available as an open-source model.