On June 17, 2025, Shanghai-based AI leader MiniMax (also known as Xiyu Technology) officially released MiniMax-M1 (hereafter “M1”)—the world’s first open-weight, large-scale, hybrid-attention reasoning model. Combining a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with an innovative Lightning Attention mechanism, M1 achieves industry-leading performance in productivity-oriented tasks, rivaling top closed-source systems while maintaining unparalleled cost-effectiveness. In this in-depth article, […]