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AI · February 17, 2026

MiniMax M2.5

The first open model to beat Sonnet made for productivity

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What it does

Introducing M2.5, an open-source frontier model designed for real-world productivity. SOTA performance at coding (SWE-Bench Verified 80.2%), search (BrowseComp 76.3%), agentic tool-calling (BFCL 76.8%) & office work. Optimized for efficient execution, 37% faster at complex tasks. At $1 per hour with 100 tps, infinite scaling of long-horizon agents now economically possible.

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