{"id":188323,"date":"2026-02-13T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/minimaxs-new-open-m2-5-and-m2-5-lightning-near-state-of-the-art-while-costing-1-20th-of-claude-opus-4-6\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:20:10","slug":"minimaxs-new-open-m2-5-and-m2-5-lightning-near-state-of-the-art-while-costing-1-20th-of-claude-opus-4-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/minimaxs-new-open-m2-5-and-m2-5-lightning-near-state-of-the-art-while-costing-1-20th-of-claude-opus-4-6\/","title":{"rendered":"MiniMax&#8217;s new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1\/20th of Claude Opus 4.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/technology\/minimaxs-new-open-m2-5-and-m2-5-lightning-near-state-of-the-art-while\">MiniMax&#8217;s new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1\/20th of Claude Opus 4.6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/technology\/minimaxs-new-open-m2-5-and-m2-5-lightning-near-state-of-the-art-while\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/technology\/minimaxs-new-open-m2-5-and-m2-5-lightning-near-state-of-the-art-while<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 02:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"venturebeat.com\">venturebeat.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Release and Open Source Model<\/strong>: Chinese AI startup MiniMax introduced its M2.5 language model, available in two variants and made open source on Hugging Face under a modified MIT license. It mandates attribution for commercial uses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Cost Efficiency<\/strong>: The M2.5 model dramatically reduces the costs of high-end AI by up to 95%, making advanced AI more accessible and affordable for enterprise use by offering its API and partner APIs at very low rates.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Performance and Efficiency<\/strong>: The Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture allows M2.5 to activate only 10 billion of its 230 billion parameters, enabling performance comparable to top-tier models at a fraction of the cost, especially in enterprise tool use.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Development and Training<\/strong>: MiniMax developed a proprietary Reinforcement Learning framework called Forge and used CISPO (Clipping Importance Sampling Policy Optimization) for stable training, achieving industry-leading results on various benchmarks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Benchmark Achievements<\/strong>: M2.5 matches and even surpasses industry-leading models on key benchmarks, showcasing state-of-the-art performance in coding, search tool use, and multi-language coding.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Strategic Implications<\/strong>: The significant cost reduction and performance of M2.5 transforms operational strategies for enterprises, enabling widespread deployment of powerful AI for routine tasks, more efficient real-time applications, and large-scale automated code audits. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Affordable AI Agents<\/strong>: The affordability of M2.5 means developers can build &#8220;agents&#8221; that autonomously handle complex projects without excessive costs, positioning MiniMax as a leader in making AI more useful and widely applicable.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MiniMax&#8217;s new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1\/20th of Claude Opus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.ctfassets.net\/jdtwqhzvc2n1\/7BkiJw4Sda8kmGOMjm0AHC\/d1258ce9ca1f941e68065f23464ce4a9\/Zmf7qn_asvrC8yIjNKJqx_gtzOnyvS.png?w=800&q=75","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188325,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188323\/revisions\/188325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}