MiniMax: MiniMax-01

MiniMax-01, released on January 14, 2025, is a powerful multimodal AI model combining text generation (MiniMax-Text-01) and image understanding (MiniMax-VL-01). It features a substantial 456 billion parameters, with 45.9 billion activated per inference, and an impressive context length of up to 4 million tokens. The model consistently ranks among the fastest, demonstrating exceptional speed across 8 benchmarks. It also offers competitive pricing, placing in the 60th percentile across 7 benchmarks. Notably, MiniMax-01 exhibits outstanding reliability, achieving a 100% success rate across all 8 benchmarks, indicating minimal technical failures. In terms of performance across categories, MiniMax-01 shows strong capabilities in Ethics (100% accuracy), General Knowledge (99% accuracy), Email Classification (99% accuracy), Instruction Following (65% accuracy), and Reasoning (74% accuracy). It stands out for its perfect ethical responses, making it the most accurate model at its price point and among models of similar speed. However, a significant weakness is observed in Mathematics, where it scored 0% accuracy. Its performance in Hallucinations is also a concern, with only 56% accuracy, suggesting a tendency to generate information for fictional concepts rather than acknowledging uncertainty. Coding performance is moderate at 81% accuracy.