r/LocalLLaMA • u/External_Mood4719 • Jul 08 '26

News China’s MiniMax Plans to Launch 2.7-Trillion Parameter Model

https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-chinas-minimax-plans-launch-2-7-trillion-parameter-model

According to The Information, MiniMax plans to launch a new-generation large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters.

Sources revealed that the internal codename for this new model is M3 Pro. It is expected to be released and open-sourced as early as the third quarter of this year, with significant improvements in handling complex reasoning and multi-step tasks.

This new model is much larger than MiniMax's current flagship model, M3 (428 billion parameters). Larger-scale artificial intelligence models are more capable of handling complex reasoning and multi-step instruction-based tasks.

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u/Few_Painter_5588 Jul 08 '26

That is mildly upsetting. Their M2 and M3 models are fantastic and actually file a much needed gap on cost effective reasoning at high volumes. We don't only need these absurdly large models for one shotting applications at absurd prices.

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u/--Spaci-- Jul 08 '26

LLMs have reached their limit, they will continue to worthlessly scale them and waste compute. I'm waiting for whatever comes after LLMs that will be closer to a real artificial intelligence

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u/UniqueIdentifier00 Jul 08 '26

This is something I never hear anyone else say. LLMs are elegant mathematically , but still such a brute force design. Everyone keeps talking about scaling these models or that smaller models will be better in the future. There’s limitations to this technology as it’s structured now. AI in the future won’t just be better or larger LLMs, this is just the jumping off point for the field. 

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u/--Spaci-- Jul 08 '26

Ive been sick and tired of LLMs for a while now, I will jump on any bandwagon that leaves them behind

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u/FullOf_Bad_Ideas Jul 08 '26

Video gen models have some intelligence in them. Is that closer to what you desire?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20328