Explore the MiniMax M2.1 Language Model

MiniMax M2.1 enhances coding workflows with efficient text processing.

Input: text Output: text Context: 196,608 tokens Release: 2025-12-23

MiniMax M2.1, released on December 23, 2025, is a lightweight large language model developed by MiniMax. With a context length of 204,800 tokens, it excels in text-to-text interactions, making it ideal for coding and agentic workflows. This model features 10 billion activated parameters, ensuring efficient performance while delivering cleaner outputs and faster response times compared to its predecessor. It supports a range of input and output modalities, specifically focusing on text, and is designed to enhance productivity in modern application development. MiniMax M2.1 also demonstrates strong multilingual coding capabilities, achieving impressive results on coding benchmarks. Learn how to effectively utilize its features in your development projects.

Use Cases

Here are a few ways teams apply MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1 in practice—from fast drafting to multimodal understanding. Adapt these ideas to your workflow.

Streamline coding tasks with intelligent assistance

Enhance IDEs and coding tools with advanced capabilities

Support multilingual application development

Facilitate agentic workflows in software projects

Improve output quality in programming tasks

Key Features

A quick look at the capabilities that make this model useful in real projects.

10 billion activated parameters for efficiency

204,800 token context length

Optimized for coding and application development

Supports multilingual coding performance

Delivers cleaner, concise outputs

Fast response times for improved productivity

Specs

Overview

Vendor
minimax

Model ID
minimax/minimax-m2.1

Release
2025-12-23

Modalities & context

Input
text

Output
text

Context
196,608 tokens

Parameters & defaults

Supported parameters: frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logit_bias, logprobs, max_tokens, min_p, presence_penalty, reasoning, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p

Defaults: temperature 1, top_p 0.9

Benchmark tests: MiniMax: MiniMax M2.1

We ran this model against a few representative prompts to show its range. Review the outputs below and be the judge.

Text

Prompt:

Write 150 words on how AI might positively upend work, leisure and creativity

# The AI Revolution: A Positive Transformation Artificial intelligence promises to fundamentally reshape human experience in ways that could liberate rather than diminish us. **In Work**: AI will handle repetitive, tedious tasks—data entry, scheduling, basic analysis—freeing humans to focus on relationship-building, strategic thinking, and work that requires genuine human connection. Rather than replacing jobs, AI may elevate them, turning grueling labor into more meaningful pursuits. **In Leisure**: With mundane obligations automated, people could enjoy unprecedented free time. AI assistants might plan trips, manage households, and handle logistics, allowing leisure to become truly restorative rather than just another form of productivity. **In Creativity**: AI serves as a collaborator rather than a competitor, generating ideas, overcoming writer's block, and helping amateurs create work that previously required years of training. Artists, writers, and musicians may use AI to amplify their vision rather than replace it. The upending isn't something to fear but to shape—ensuring these tools enhance human flourishing rather than simply maximizing efficiency.

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verb

To “upend” means to completely disrupt, overturn, or drastically change the established order or structure of something. It implies a significant shift or alteration that can potentially have far-reaching consequences. When something is upended, it is turned upside down or transformed in a way that challenges conventional norms or expectations. The term often carries a sense of innovation, transformation, and sometimes even a hint of upheaval, indicating that the changes are not just minor adjustments but rather a fundamental reimagining of the status quo.

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