# MiniMax — MiniMax M2

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## Model

- Name: MiniMax M2
- Company: MiniMax (minimax.io)
- Launch post: MiniMax M2 & Agent: Ingenious in Simplicity — https://forck.live/items/3404-minimax-m2-agent-ingenious-in-simplicity
- Announced: 2025-10-27
- Launch source: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m2-en-1748600000
- Launch chosen by: the earliest dated release post naming it
- Released (per models.dev): 2025-10-27
- Listed (per OpenRouter): 2025-10-23
- Open weights: yes
- Posts about it: 2
- Outlets named under its posts: 0
- Variant: MiniMax M2-her — https://forck.live/models/minimax-m2-her
- OpenRouter id: minimax/minimax-m2 — https://openrouter.ai/minimax/minimax-m2
- Price: 8% of Claude Sonnet's price — from https://forck.live/items/3404-minimax-m2-agent-ingenious-in-simplicity

## Posts about it

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### MiniMax — Aligning to What? Rethinking Agent Generalization in MiniMax M2

- Company: MiniMax (minimax.io)
- Announced: 2025-10-30T10:03:45+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/MiniMax-AI/aligning-to-what
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1589-aligning-to-what-rethinking-agent-generalization-in-minimax-m2

The challenges of agent generalization for the MiniMax M2 model, emphasizing the need for interleaved thinking and the insight that true generalization requires adapting to perturbations across the entire operational space, not just tool scaling.

### MiniMax — MiniMax M2 & Agent: Ingenious in Simplicity

- Company: MiniMax (minimax.io)
- Announced: 2025-10-27
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m2-en-1748600000
- Record: https://forck.live/items/3404-minimax-m2-agent-ingenious-in-simplicity
- Subject: MiniMax models

MiniMax launched and open-sourced the M2 model, an agent-first model that delivers top-tier coding, tool use, and deep search at 8% of Claude Sonnet's price with 2x speed. A free API and Agent product are available.

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