> MiniMax has been continuously transforming itself in a more AI-native way. The core driving forces of this process are models, Agent scaffolding, and organization. Throughout the exploration process, we have gained increasingly deeper understanding of these three aspects. Today we are releasing updates to the model component, namely MiniMax M2.1, hoping to help more enterprises and individuals find more AI-native ways of working (and living) sooner.
This compresses to: “We are updating our model, MiniMax, to 2.1. Agent harnesses exist and Agents are getting more capable.”
A good model and agent harness, pointed at the task of writing this post, might suggest less verbosity and complexity— it comes off as fake and hype-chasing to me, even if your model is actually good. I disengage there.
I saw yall give a lightning talk recently and it was similarly hype-y. Perhaps this is a translation or cultural thing.
so when MiniMax released a pretty capable model, you choose to ignore the model itself and just focus a single sentence they wrote in the release note and started bad mouthing it.
is it a cultural thing?
It’s called bikeshedding and yes it’s a cultural thing on HN. [1]
Most people here are big company worker bees where they take zero risks and do very little of substance.
In these organizations, it’s common for large groups of people to get together in “meetings” and endlessly nitpick surface-level details of unimportant things while completely missing the big picture because it’s far too complex to allow for easy opinions or smart-sounding critique.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
It’s the first thing in this press release. Start with garbage? I’m going to assume it’s all garbage.
you are more than welcomed to call it garbage or whatever else you like. they will just catch up fast and eat your lunch in 6-12 months time.
btw, full weights are now available for download.
I’m not even sitting at the table. I’m a spectator. What’s your argument/allegiance here? The original article is hyped-up drivel. The model could be amazing and that’s still the case.
If I use a software I need to trust it.
a model is not software, it is a bunch of weights.
you are more than welcomed to pick whatever model or software you choose to trust, that is totally fine. However, that is vastly different from bad mouthing a model or software just because its release note contains a single sentence you don't like.
The API is software. You don't get the weights.
The weights are open.
here https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.1
GGUF https://huggingface.co/unsloth/MiniMax-M2.1-GGUF
Huh, I couldn't find that in the article when I posted my comment. I checked again now and it's there.
Not sure it’s a cultural thing since most of the copy coming out of DeepSeek has been pretty straightforward.