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MiniMax-M2.5 is an open-weight language model from nvidia, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
Model Overview Description: The NVIDIA MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4 model is the quantized version of MiniMax's MiniMax-M2.5 model, which is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture. For more information, please check here. The NVIDIA MiniMax-M2.5 NVFP4 model is quantized with Nvidia Model Optimizer. This model is ready for commercial/non-commercial use. <br Third-Party Community Consideration This model is not owned or developed by NVIDIA. This model has been developed and built to a third-party's requirements for this application and use case; see link to Non-NVIDIA (MiniMax-M2.5) Model Card. License/Terms of Use: Governing Terms: Use of this model is governed by the NVIDIA Open Model License . ADDITIONAL INFORMATION : Modified MIT License. MiniMax M2.5 . Deployment Geography: Global <br Use Case: Developers looking to take off-the-shelf, pre-quantized models for deployment in AI Agent systems, chatbots, RAG systems, and other AI-powered applications. <br Release Date: Huggingface 03/25/2026 via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4 <br Model Architecture: Architecture Type: Transformers <br Network Architecture: MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM <br This model was developed based on MiniMax-M2.5 <br Number of model parameters: 229B <br Input: Input Type(s): Text <br Input Format(s): String <br Input Parameters: 1D (One-Dimensional): Sequences <br Other Properties Related to Input: Context length 196,608 tokens <br Output: Output Type(s): Text <br Output Format: String <br Output Parameters: 1D (One-Dimensional): Sequences <br Other Properties Related to Output: None <br Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA's hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions. <br Software Integration: Runtime Engine(s): <br SGLang <br vLLM <br Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility: <br NVIDIA Blackwell <br Preferred Operating System(s): <br Linux <br The integration of foundation and fine-tuned models into AI systems requires additional testing using use-case
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | nvidia |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Parameters (lead) | 116.3B |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | Model Optimizer |
| Based on | MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 |
| Released | 2026-03-11 |
| Popularity | 776k downloads / month |
| Likes | 37 |
| Licence | Commercial licence needed |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4 | 116.3B | NVFP4 | — | — | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys minimax-m2-5 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (minimax-m2-5 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"minimax-m2-5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
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Licence
The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗