titleThe MiniMax-M2 Series: Mini Activations Unleashing Max Real-World Intelligence
authorsMiniMax, Aili Chen, Aonian Li, Baichuan Zhou, Bangwei Gong, Binyang Jiang, Boji Dan, Changqing Yu, Chao Wang, Cheng Ma, Cheng Zhong, Cheng Zhu, Chengjun Xiao, Chengyi Yang, Chengyu Du, Chenyang Zhang, Chi Zhang, Chuangyi Huang, Chunhao Zhang, Chunhui Du, Chunyu Zhao, Congchao Guo, Da Chen, Deming Ding, Dianjun Sun, Dongyu Zhang, Enhui Yang, Fei Yu, Guang Zheng, Guodong Zheng, Guohong Li, Haichao Zhu, Haigang Zhou, Haimo Zhang, Han Ding, Hao Zhang, Haohai Sun, Haolin Lyu, Haonan Lu, Haoyu Wang, Huajie Shi, Huiyang Li, Jiacheng Chen, Jian Zhang, Jiaqi Zhuang, Jiaren Cai, Jiaxin Pan, Jiayao Li, Jiayuan Song, Jichuan Zhang, Jie Wang, Jihao Gu, Jin Zhu, Jingwei Dong, Jingyang Li, Jingyu Zhang, Jingze Zhuang, Jinhao Tian, Jinli Liu, Jinyi Hu, Jun Tao, Jun Zhang, Junbin Ruan, Junhao Xu, Junjie Yan, Junteng Liu, Junxian He, Kang Xu, Ke Ji, Ke Yang, Kecheng Xiao, Keyu Duan, Keyu Li, Le Han, Letian Ruan, Li Yuan, Lianfei Yu, Liheng Feng, Lijie Mo, Lin Li, Lingye Bao, Lingyu Yang, Lingyuan Zhou, Loki, Lu Chen, Lunbin Ceng, Ming Li, Ming Zhong, Mingliang Tao, Mingyuan Chi, Mujie Lin, Nan Hu, Ningxin Chen, Peiyin Zhu, Peng Gao, Pengcheng Gao, Pengfei Li, Penglin Li, Pengyu Zhao, Qibin Ren, Qidi Xu, Qihan Ren, Qile Li, Qin Wang, Quanliang Chen, Qunhong Ceng, Rong Tian, Rui Dong, Ruitao Leng, Ruize Zhang, Shanqi Liu, Shaoyu Chen, Sheng Jia, Shun Yao, Shuoran Zhao, Shuqi Yu, Sichen Li, Sicheng Pan, Songquan Zhu, Tengfei Li, Tian Xie, Tiancheng Qin, Tianrun Liang, Wei Liu, Weiqi Xu, Weitao Li, Weixiang Chen, Weiyu Cheng, Weiyu Zhang, Wenhu Chen, Wenqian Zhao, Xiancai Chen, Xiangjun Song, Xiangyuan Wang, Xiao Luo, Xiao Su, Xiaobo Li, Xiaodong Han, Xiaojie Wu, Xihao Song, Xingyi Han, Xinyu Guan, Xuan Lu, Xun Zou, Xunhao Lai, Xutong Li, Yan Gong, Yang Wang, Yang Xu, Yangsen Wang, Ye Tang, Yicheng Chen, Yinran Qiu, Yiqi Shi, Yiting Guo, Yiwen Huang, Yixuan Wang, Yongyi Hu, Yu Gao, Yu Zhang, Yuanxiang Ying, Yuanzhen Zhang, Yubo Wang, Yuchen Song, Yufeng Yang, Yuhang Meng, Yuhang Miao, Yuhao Li, Yujie Liu, Yulin Hu, Yunan Huang, Yunji Li, Yunyi Huang, Yusen Zhang, Yusu Hong, Yutao Xie, Yutong Zhang, Yuwen Liao, Yuxuan Shi, Yuze Wenren, Zebin Li, Zehan Li, Zejian Luo, Zeyu Jin, Zeyuan Sun, Zhanpeng Zhou, Zhaochen Su, Zhendong Li, Zhengmao Zhu, Zhengyuan Peng, Zhenhua Fan, Zhi Zhang, Zhichao Xu, Zhiheng Lv, Zhikang Xu, Zhitao He, Zhiwei He, Zhongyuan Li, Zibo Gao, Zijia Wu, Zijian Song, Zijian Zhou, Zijun Sun, Zishan Huang, Ziying Chen, Ziyue Ge
date2026-05-26
venuearXiv (preprint, not peer reviewed)
idarXiv:2605.26494
affiliationMiniMax
upvotes36 (Hugging Face Daily Papers, 2026-11-01)
linksabs pdf hf
abstractWe introduce the MiniMax-M2 series, a family of Mixture-of-Experts language models built around the principle that mini activations can unleash maximum real-world intelligence. The flagship M2 contains 229.9B total parameters with only 9.8B activated per token. Designed end-to-end for agentic deployment, the M2 series rests on three components: (i) agent-driven data pipelines producing large-scale, verifiable trajectories across agentic coding and agentic cowork, each grounded in an executable workspace and an artifact-aligned reward; (ii) Forge, a scalable agent-native RL system that adapts to long-horizon agent trajectories, paired with windowed-FIFO scheduling, prefix-tree merging, inference optimization, and a clean training-inference-agent decoupling that supports both white-box and black-box agents; (iii) the latest M2.7 checkpoint takes an early step toward self-evolution -- autonomously debugging training runs and modifying its own scaffold. Across M2 through M2.7, this combination translates a mini-activation footprint into frontier-tier performance on agentic coding, deep search, office-task, and reasoning benchmarks.

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  year={2026},
  eprint={2605.26494},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26494}
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