MiniMax's Ultra-Long-Context AI Models

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MiniMax's Ultra-Long-Context AI Models

AI innovation just got a massive boost from Chinese AI lab MiniMax. They've launched two open-source models featuring a new ‘Lightning Attention’ technique that allows them to handle an astonishing 4 million tokens without compromising speed or performance.

The details:

• MiniMax-Text-01: A 456B parameter base language model.

• MiniMax-VL-01: A multimodal model for text and visual data.

• Both models can process sequences up to 4 million tokens—far beyond the current standard of 128K-256K tokens.

• They perform on par with leading models on academic benchmarks and outshine all open-source models in long-context tasks.

• MiniMax’s API pricing is competitive: $0.2 per million input tokens and $1.1 per million output tokens.

Why it matters:

As AI development trends toward creating autonomous agents with vast memory and processing capabilities, MiniMax's models could be a game-changer. Their open-source release and low-cost API access are set to drive innovation and competition in the AI agent ecosystem, potentially redefining what's possible in AI memory and context handling.

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