MiniMax M2.7

As if we could stop waiting :) Anything open-source that costs so much money and effort is always worth the wait, and the community is as grateful as ever

From my testing glm, especially glm 5.1, is better in general. But minimax is much smaller and punches well above its weight

M2.7 is the most excited I've been for a release in a while. I've been using the close-weight version MiniMax is serving and it is *incredible* in a 24/7 agentic loop. I say this as a self-proclaimed M2.5 hater - *keep your eyes on M2.7*

Not only that but I imagine it sucks from minimax's perspective because they put all this work into a model only for other providers to eat their lunch. If it means more "open weights" models, I don't mind the terms of the license even if they're more restrictive (I mean if it results in more models being freely available and not going closed source).

Absolutely. We're absolutely not blaming anyone. On the contrary. This type of post is meant to show how much we appreciate and patiently await each release.

That's less than 2 hours away! I hope the Unsloth brothers got early access and will have their quants ready at the same time.

Yo la uso con claude code. Hoy entregué para pruebas un proyecto completo que logre hacer con ella en dos días, muy buena. Eso sí, si no sabes lo que le estas pidiendo o como lo está haciendo, estas perdido, eso aplica con cualquier modelo.

Zero-day support and all we get is wah-wah. It blows my mind how pathetically intolerant people have become with open source developers valuable time. Think of this as a free driver update, and be grateful rather than having a sook. The unsloth lads have had every chance to take multi-million dollar jobs at frontier labs and instead they support us, and yet still have yo put up with this lazy whinging about free downloads. Pull your head in.

This is never targeting single users, small companies, ones who generated code. It is targeting infra providers, who would earn money from their work without paying royalties.

You can use it for work. Your work just can't be hosting the model and charging for access (API)

why don't they ever compare with their peers. I want to see how it compares to GLM-5.1, KimiK2.5, Qwe3.5-297B, etc.

Casi siempre esta caido porque los servers van sobrecargados

From the looks of it, they want to keep it in a legally grey area so they always have the benefit of doubt. I would avoid this for any serious work tbh.

the minimax hype cycle is getting kinda ridiculous at this point. announce on twitter, post weights on hf "coming soon", then radio silence for 2 weeks. at least when meta drops something they just drop it

licence is really bad lol we won’t even get third party providers so once minimax stops hosting it’ll be gone via api for a lot of people

It's an awful practice. They named the license "modified-MIT" while stripping out commercial use - the core of what MIT is. This kills the open source spirit, and if nobody says anything, every other model provider will do the same thing. It becomes the norm. That's why you call it out.

This is lawyer-speak. Notice this soundbite doesn't mention using your 'code writing' commercially, but his earlier tweet does (it's not allowed).

It is about Unsloth. I don't even know what I'm supposed to say. They just release broken quants all the time and people should not get them.

That's pretty bad, I thought they would verify the quants before uploading, but that would explain why they are always so fast. Bartowski takes longer, probably because he verifies them. I have been using Q4\_K\_XL for a while but with Qwen 3.5 I got curious and compared the quant the q4\_k\_m. Found out q4\_k\_m had better quality in my tests so now I'm back to Bart.

Still NC. Still "modified" MIT. Bruh, just call it NC and be done with it. (cohere, mistral, etc. use those licenses and it's fine.)