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Public story · 2026-02-12 · source-backed
Chinese lab MiniMax launched M2.5, calling it "the first production-level model designed natively for Agent scenarios," claiming to match Claude Sonnet at 1/20th cost. They say 30% of internal tasks and 80% of new code commits are handled by M2.5. Trained using proprietary RL framework called Forge. Weights not yet publicly released despite "open source" claims — license terms remain undisclosed. Treat with appropriate skepticism until independent benchmarks confirm.
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OpenHands competes with Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
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OpenHands competes with Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
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OpenHands uses GPT / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
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