In the last few years, Chinese AI startup MiniMax has become one of the most exciting in the crowded global AI marketplace, carving out a reputation for delivering frontier-level large language models (LLMs) with open source licenses and before that, high-quality AI video generation models (Hailuo). The release of MiniMax M2.7 today — a new proprietary LLM designed to perform well powering AI agents and as the backend to third-party harnesses and tools like Claude Code, Kilo Code and OpenClaw — marks yet a new milestone: Rather than relying solely on human-led fine-tuning, MiniMax has leveraged M2.7 to build, monitor, and optimize its own reinforcement learning harnesses. This move toward recursive self-improvement signals a shift in the industry: a future where the models we use are [...]
Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are increasingly valuing: agentic tool use — that [...]
Chinese AI startup MiniMax, headquartered in Shanghai, has sent shockwaves through the AI industry today with the release of its new M2.5 language model in two variants, which promises to make high-en [...]
Even as concern and skepticism grows over U.S. AI startup OpenAI's buildout strategy and high spending commitments, Chinese open source AI providers are escalating their competition and one has e [...]
Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack integration that allows software engineering teams to execute code changes, debug issues, a [...]
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are gaining renewed attention for developing and open sourcing a technique that allows large language models (LLMs) — like those underp [...]
Anthropic dropped a bombshell on the artificial intelligence industry Monday, publicly accusing three prominent Chinese AI laboratories — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax — of orchestrating coor [...]
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be "studio" environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded [...]
Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) wit [...]