MiniMax M2.5 Drops Into the Arena: A Tiny Giant Challenging Frontier Models

MiniMax M2.5 Is Here, and It Is Free in Kilo for a Week

TLDR: MiniMax has released M2.5, an open-weight model that scores 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified -- putting it neck and neck with Claude Opus 4.6. It uses only 10B activated parameters, runs at 100 tokens per second, and Kilo Code is offering it free for a week.

MiniMax M2.5 is Here, and it's Free in Kilo for a Week