MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

These scores place it at or near the level of top proprietary systems like GPT-5 (thinking) and Claude Sonnet 4.5, making ...
The Information

China’s MiniMax Launches New Open-Source AI Model

Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax launched a new open-source large language model on Monday whose performance is ranked the highest among such models on some leaderboards. The new model, ...

AI’s Next Frontier? An Algorithm for Consciousness

Some of the world’s most interesting thinkers about thinking think they might’ve cracked machine sentience. And I think they ...
TipRanks on MSN

New China Crisis for Alphabet (GOOGL) as AI Startup MiniMax Unveils ‘Unprecedently’ Smart Model

Another Chinese AI startup is threatening to challenge the power of U.S. tech with the launch of a new world-leading open ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

AI teaches itself and outperforms human-designed algorithms

Like humans, artificial intelligence learns by trial and error, but traditionally, it requires humans to set the ball rolling ...

AMI 1.0 First, Algorithms Next: How AI Keeps Distribution Affordable—Now

As distribution companies absorb electric vehicle (EV) load growth, aging assets, extreme weather and a decarbonizing grid, ...

Thinking Machines challenges OpenAI's AI scaling strategy: 'First superintelligence will be a superhuman learner'

Thinking Machines Lab challenges OpenAI’s scaling-first approach to artificial intelligence, arguing that true ...
Nature

This AI method could turbocharge the hunt for new medicines

The approach, published on 23 October in Science, builds on a trend that is sweeping the field of drug discovery: the use of ...