MiniMax-M1 is a new open source model with 1 MILLION TOKEN context and new, hyper efficient reinforcement learning

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, perhaps best known in the West for its hit realistic AI video model Hailuo, has released its latest large language model, MiniMax-M1 — and in great news for enterprises and developers, it’s completely open source under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning businesses can take it and use it for commercial applications and modify it to their liking without restriction or payment.

M1 is an open-weight offering that sets new standards in long-context reasoning, agentic tool use, and efficient compute performance. It’s available today on the AI code sharing community Hugging Face and Microsoft’s rival code sharing community GitHub, the first release of what the company dubbed as “MiniMaxWeek” from its social account on X — with further product announcements expected.

MiniMax-M1 distinguishes itself with a context window of 1 million input tokens and up to 80,000 tokens in ...