MiniMax M2.7 Confirmed as Open Weights — Community Flags Timing After Cursor Composer Licensing Controversy

r/LocalLLaMA·medium signal

MiniMax confirmed M2.7 will be released as open weights (516 upvotes, 84 comments on r/LocalLLaMA). The post's joke reference — 'Composer 2-Flash has been saved! For legal reasons that's a joke' — signals the open release follows the Cursor Composer 2.0 licensing controversy, where Cursor shipped Kimi K2.5 (MiniMax lineage) without initial disclosure. An open-weights M2.7 enables self-hosted deployments at Composer-2.0-class capability.