> MiniMax has been continuously transforming itself in a more AI-native way. The core driving forces of this process are models, Agent scaffolding, and organization. Throughout the exploration process, we have gained increasingly deeper understanding of these three aspects. Today we are releasing updates to the model component, namely MiniMax M2.1, hoping to help more enterprises and individuals find more AI-native ways of working (and living) sooner.

This compresses to: “We are updating our model, MiniMax, to 2.1. Agent harnesses exist and Agents are getting more capable.”

A good model and agent harness, pointed at the task of writing this post, might suggest less verbosity and complexity— it comes off as fake and hype-chasing to me, even if your model is actually good. I disengage there.

I saw yall give a lightning talk recently and it was similarly hype-y. Perhaps this is a translation or cultural thing.

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tw1984 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

so when MiniMax released a pretty capable model, you choose to ignore the model itself and just focus a single sentence they wrote in the release note and started bad mouthing it.

is it a cultural thing?

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pembrook an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It’s called bikeshedding and yes it’s a cultural thing on HN. [1]

Most people here are big company worker bees where they take zero risks and do very little of substance.

In these organizations, it’s common for large groups of people to get together in “meetings” and endlessly nitpick surface-level details of unimportant things while completely missing the big picture because it’s far too complex to allow for easy opinions or smart-sounding critique.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

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simlevesque 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If I use a software I need to trust it.

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tw1984 5 hours ago | parent [-]

a model is not software, it is a bunch of weights.

you are more than welcomed to pick whatever model or software you choose to trust, that is totally fine. However, that is vastly different from bad mouthing a model or software just because its release note contains a single sentence you don't like.

	▲	LoganDark 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The API is software. You don't get the weights.

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zaptrem 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure it’s a cultural thing since most of the copy coming out of DeepSeek has been pretty straightforward.