MiniMax
M2.7
Open Models
Mar 21, 2026
It's time we stop pretending open models like MiniMax M2.7 compete with Codex and Claude; they don't.
Look, I want to love MiniMax. I really do. And I'll keep going back to it, I'll keep trying. I'll keep giving it a chance. But it's not Claude Opus. It's not Codex. And we need to stop pretending that it is. It's a Temu-Claude. And that's okay.
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