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MiniMax-M2.5

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.

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What MiniMax-M2.5 is

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

What it is

Makernvidia
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)116.3B
Variants1
Runs withModel Optimizer
Based onMiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5
Released2026-03-11
Popularity776k downloads / month
Likes37
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

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.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
MiniMax-M2.5-NVFP4116.3BNVFP4Weights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

Model Optimizer safetensors minimax_m2 nvidia ModelOpt MiniMax quantized NVFP4 nvfp4 text-generation conversational custom_code 8-bit modelopt

Licence

Commercial licence needed

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 ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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