MiniMax‑M1 Debuts with Cost‑Efficient, High-Performance RL Model
MiniMax-AI has released MiniMax‑M1, a large open-weight AI model tuned for long-context reasoning and software engineering tasks. Built using hybrid attention and a novel reinforcement learning algorithm, it was trained in just three weeks for under $535K. Its public release offers developers a new long-context contender at an unusually efficient cost.
