MiniMax's 2.7T M3 Pro aims to dethrone China's open-source giants
chinese ai startup minimax plans to open-source a massive 2.7 trillion parameter model called m3 pro later this year, challenging domestic rivals like deepseek and zhipu.
chinese developer minimax is preparing to launch m3 pro, a 2.7 trillion parameter model that sources say could be released as open source as early as the third quarter. the model represents a massive scale-up from the company's existing 428 billion parameter m3, targeting complex reasoning tasks. minimax faces stiff competition from deepseek, zhipu, and moonshot ai in the chinese open-source sector, even as beijing signals plans to tighten controls on future ai releases.