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The MiniMax-M2 Series: Mini Activations Unleashing Max Real-World Intelligence

MiniMax released the M2 series of Mixture-of-Experts language models, featuring 229.9 billion total parameters with only 9.8 billion activated per token, designed for agentic deployment. The models use agent-driven data pipelines, a scalable reinforcement learning system called Forge, and the M2.7 checkpoint introduces self-evolution capabilities for autonomous debugging and scaffold modification. The series achieves frontier-tier performance on agentic coding, deep search, office-task, and reasoning benchmarks despite its small activation footprint.

read1 min publishedMay 27, 2026

arXiv:2605.26494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the MiniMax-M2 series, a family of Mixture-of-Experts language models built around the principle that mini activations can unleash maximum real-world intelligence. The flagship M2 contains 229.9B total parameters with only 9.8B activated per token. Designed end-to-end for agentic deployment, the M2 series rests on three components: (i) agent-driven data pipelines producing large-scale, verifiable trajectories across agentic coding and agentic cowork, each grounded in an executable workspace and an artifact-aligned reward; (ii) Forge, a scalable agent-native RL system that adapts to long-horizon agent trajectories, paired with windowed-FIFO scheduling, prefix-tree merging, inference optimization, and a clean training-inference-agent decoupling that supports both white-box and black-box agents; (iii) the latest M2.7 checkpoint takes an early step toward self-evolution -- autonomously debugging training runs and modifying its own scaffold. Across M2 through M2.7, this combination translates a mini-activation footprint into frontier-tier performance on agentic coding, deep search, office-task, and reasoning benchmarks.

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