Open-source releaseModerate global significanceConfirmed confidence
MiniMax releases MiniMax M2
MiniMax's new-generation base model, increasing the number of sub-expert networks and the overall parameter count.
What happened
Event details
MiniMax M2 is MiniMax's new-generation foundation model, adding more sub-expert networks and scaling overall parameters. It is a 230B open-source MoE model, released on October 27, 2025; the primary source is MiniMax's official release page.
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Why it matters
Rated on the impact-v1 six-axis scale: technical 2/5, market 2/5, ecosystem 4/5, policy & social 1/5, scope 3/5, durability 3/5.
67/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.