# MiniMax M2.7 (230B)

> Agent-focused 230B follow-up built for self-evolution, agent harnesses, and productivity workflows.

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Lab | MiniMax (China) |
| Released | 2026-03-18 |
| Decoder type | Sparse MoE |
| Family | Sparse MoE |
| Scale | 230B total, 10B active (4.3% active) |
| Context window | 196,608 tokens |
| Attention | GQA with QK-Norm |
| Layer mix | 62 GQA |
| KV cache / token (bf16) | 248 KiB (High) |
| License | MiniMax M2.7 Non-Commercial License |

**Key detail:** Keeps the M2.5-style 62-layer sparse MoE stack and adds three MTP modules for speculative decoding support.

## Architecture concepts

- [QK-Norm (QK-Norm)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/qk-norm.md): RMSNorm applied to queries and keys before attention to keep logits well-behaved.
- [Grouped-Query Attention (GQA)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/gqa.md): Several query heads share one key/value head, shrinking the KV cache with little quality loss.
- [Mixture of Experts (MoE)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/moe.md): Many feed-forward experts, but a router sends each token to only a few of them.
- [Multi-Token Prediction (MTP)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/mtp.md): Extra heads learn to predict several future tokens, and can draft tokens at inference.

## Benchmark (Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index)

- AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2: total 22.8 (General 34.7, Scientific 15.1, Coding 25.1, Agents 14.7)

## Links

- Architecture diagram: https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/images/architectures/minimax-m2-7-230b.webp
- config.json: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7/blob/main/config.json
- License: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7/blob/main/LICENSE
- Tech report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26494
- Source card (source of truth): https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/#card-minimax-m2-7-230b
- Web page: https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/models/minimax-m2-7-230b/
- JSON: https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/api/models/minimax-m2-7-230b.json

_Data from Sebastian Raschka's LLM Architecture Gallery (https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/). Synced 2026-11-04._