MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source

China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open-source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.…

Jun 17, 2025 - 19:52
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MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source

China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms

MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open-source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.…