Not 2 months after their IPO and first public quarter, MiniMax is back in the news with MiniMax 2.7, a nice bright spot in Chinese Open Models after the changeover in Qwen. They match Z.ai’s GLM-5 SOTA open model from last month, but the story is efficiency here (see green quadrant in Artificial Analysis’ chart): The team calls out “Early Echoes of Self-Evolution”, calling it “our first model deep...