China's MiniMax Says Its New AI Reasoning Model Beats DeepSeek
The Shanghai-based company touted the efficiency of its new MiniMax-M1 model in handling complicated productivity tasks, claiming it outdoes all closed-source competitors from China in a statement. In several benchmarks presented by MiniMax, M1 also scored higher than DeepSeek's latest R1-0528 model.
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