steveharing14d ago

MiniMax M2.7 Is Now Open Source

https://firethering.com/minimax-m2-7-agentic-model/

MiniMax M2.7: The Agentic Model That Helped Build Itself - Firethering

MiniMax handed an internal version of M2.7 a programming scaffold and let it run unsupervised. Over 100 rounds it analyzed its own failures, modified its own code, ran evaluations, and decided what to keep and what to revert. The result was a 30% performance improvement with nobody directing each step. That is not a benchmark result. That is a different way of thinking about how AI models get built. M2.7 is now available on HuggingFace with weights you can download and deploy. NVIDIA is offering free API access if you want to try it without the hardware overhead. The license has a commercial limitation worth knowing about, we will get to that.

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Show threadfg137

What's people's experience of using MiniMax for coding?

I had a really bad time with it. I use (real) Claude Code for work so I know what a good model feels like. MiniMax's token plan is nice but the quality is really far from Claude models.

I needed to constantly "remind" it to get things done. Even for a four sentence prompt in a session that is well below the context window, MiniMax would ignore half of it. This happens all the time. (This is Claude Code + MiniMax API, set up using official instructions)

Basically, if I say get A, B and C done, it will only do A and B. I say, you still need to do C, so it does C but reverts the code for A.

Things that Claude can usually one shot takes 5 iterations with MiniMax.

I ended up switching to Claude to get one of my personal projects done.

Apr 12 at 11:26amWeb
Show threadhow_gauche4d ago
I love it. It's not quite as good as Sonnet but it's quick, and Minimax 2.5 is like 1/4 the cost of Haiku. With enough of a harness around it, almost any breed of monkey can be coerced into producing excellent typewriter work. GLM 5 and 5.1 are other really competitive options on the price/performance curve
Show threadstavros4d ago

I haven't tried MiniMax but Claude has gotten seriously nerfed lately. A few weeks ago I could code all week on the $100/mo plan without getting close to the limit, now I consumed half the limit in the first day.

Ridiculous, my company has committed to $200k annual plans and they changed the deal mid-way. We'll have to see about a refund.