# MiniMax

[https://timesof.ai/platform/minimax](https://timesof.ai/platform/minimax)

Shanghai-based AI lab building cost-efficient, high-performance models optimized for real-world agentic and productivity workloads.

MiniMax focuses on dramatically lowering inference costs while maintaining near-frontier capabilities for coding, tool use, and office productivity tasks. Its releases emphasize open weights availability alongside API offerings.

## Coverage

- [MiniMax M2.5 — Near-Frontier Agents at a Fraction of Opus Economics](https://timesof.ai/2026/02/minimax-releases-m2-5-low-cost-frontier-productivity-model) — MiniMax M2.5/Lightning Feb 12: 80.2% SWE-Bench Verified vendor; Lightning 100 tok/s; ~1/10–1/20 frontier cost.