MiniMax is building a massive AI model with 2.7 trillion parameters

MiniMax is planning a new AI model called M3 Pro with 2.7 trillion parameters. The company says it could launch as early as the third quarter this year and will be open source. It's designed to handle complex reasoning and multi-step tasks much better.

This comes after MiniMax open-sourced its M3 model in June, which has 428 billion total parameters and 23 billion active parameters. The M3 model scored top marks in coding and agent benchmarks, and can break down tasks, use tools, and reason through multiple steps on its own.

Founded in early 2022, MiniMax now serves over 300 million personal users in more than 200 countries and regions, plus over 1 million business clients and developers in more than 100 countries.