MiniMax M2.5 promises "intelligence too cheap to meter" as Chinese labs squeeze Western AI pricing
Chinese AI company MiniMax out of Shanghai has released its new open-weights model M2.5 under the MIT license.<br /> The article MiniMax M2.5 promises "intelligence too cheap to meter" as Chinese labs squeeze Western AI pricing appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
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