China’s MiniMax plans to launch giant 2.7 trillion parameter model

Chinese AI startup MiniMax Group is working on a large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, a person with direct knowledge told Reuters, the largest open-weight AI model released by a Chinese firm and possibly the largest in the world.

The global push toward trillion-parameter AI models is being driven by growing ‌demand for ⁠autonomous systems ⁠capable of complex reasoning. Analysts say the threshold is critical to building systems that can execute multi-step operations without human intervention.