Chinese lab shipping open-weight models. In this corpus MiniMax releases M2.1, tuned for Rust, Java and C++ rather than Python alone, and three months later M2.7, which it described as its first model deeply participating in its own evolution — the recursive-self-improvement claim arriving from the other side of the Pacific.
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Chinese AI lab shipping the open-weight MiniMax M2 model line, from the systems-language-tuned M2.1 to M2.7, which it said participates in its own evolution.
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