Startups & Venture
MiniMax’s M2.5 slashes AI costs and reframes models as persistent workers
Shanghai startup MiniMax unveiled M2.5 in two flavors, claiming near–state-of-the-art accuracy while cutting consumption costs dramatically and enabling sustained, low-cost agent deployments. The release couples a sparse Mixture-of-Experts design and a proprietary RL training loop with aggressive pricing, but licensing and weight availability remain unresolved.
