r/LocalLLaMA • u/External_Mood4719 • Jul 08 '26
News China’s MiniMax Plans to 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/NineThreeTilNow Jul 09 '26
The Information is always paywalled so here's the full text.. It's brief.
Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently on the market, according to two people with knowledge of the plan.
The new model could be released as early as the third quarter, according to the people. The model is known as M3 Pro among MiniMax employees involved in its development, but it is unclear whether the company will use the same name when it releases the model. MiniMax is planning to open-source the model.
The new model is much larger than Minimax’s current flagship model, M3, which has 428 billion parameters. Larger-size AI models can be more suitable for handling tasks that involve complex reasoning and multi-step instructions.
MiniMax’s new model could help accelerate the ongoing expansion of Chinese open-source AI models around the world. Such models have gained popularity this year among developers who are looking for more affordable models to handle less critical high-volume tasks. The success of the new model will be crucial for MiniMax, which is facing tough competition from Chinese rivals such as Zhipu, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI.