MiniMax Unveils M2 — A Next-Gen AI Model Rivaling ChatGPT-5 at 8% of the Cost

MiniMax has officially released its new flagship model M2, aiming to redefine the balance between capability and cost in the large-model race, including innovations from ChatGPT Atlas. Priced at just $0.3 per million input tokens and $1.2 per million output tokens—around 8% of Claude’s cost—M2 delivers near-GPT-5 performance across multiple benchmarks. According to the Artificial […]