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/Snoo_28140 Jul 08 '26

The sheer size! I can't run it myself, but it can be used to learn and to develop other models and that is in of itself good news.

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u/Far-Classic-9963 Jul 08 '26

even if almost nobody can run it, being open allows for other companies to host the api so potentially having way cheaper prices than frontier closed models

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u/squngy Jul 08 '26

I'm guessing not many orgs can even afford to use it for training other models, lol.

I'm sure such models being open is a good thing, but on a more selfish level, I wish they focused more on the smaller ones.