Aug 13, 2026
MiniMax released model weights for MiniMax M2.7 on Hugging Face, a self-evolving agent model that scores 56.22% on SWE-Pro and 57.0% on Terminal Bench 2. The company also released MMX-CLI, a command-line interface providing native access to image, video, speech, music, vision, and search capabilities.
US startup Arcee AI invested approximately half of its total venture capital to train Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 400 billion parameter open reasoning model designed to compete with Anthropic's Claude Opus in agent tasks.
Chinese AI company Z.AI unveiled GLM-5.1, a 754B parameter open-source agentic model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on SWE-Bench Pro and can run autonomously for up to 8 hours on long-horizon engineering tasks.