MiniMax Open-Sources M2.7 Self-Evolving Agent Model Outperforming Western Flagship Models

Chinese AI company MiniMax released the weights for MiniMax M2.7, a 229-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that participated in its own development cycle. Scout surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on coding benchmarks and scores 56.22% on SWE-Pro, marking the first step toward autonomous AI self-evolution. Weights are available on Hugging Face with deployment support for multiple platforms.