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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn the SWE-Bench Verified coding benchmark\u2014a key industry measure of code generation and software reasoning\u2014Minimax M2.5 achieved 80.2%, edging out OpenAI\u2019s GPT-5.2 (80.0%), , and Google\u2019s Gemini 3 Pro (78%), while being within touching distance of Anthropic\u2019s Claude Opus 4.6 (80.8%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beyond coding, M2.5 also demonstrated leading performance across other practical productivity and agentic evaluation suites, achieving 76.3% on BrowseComp (web search and context), 76.8% on BFCL Multi-Turn (tool-use reasoning), 74.4% on MEWC (multi-expert workflow coordination), and 54.2% on VIBE-Pro (office productivity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minimax claims that M2.5 is 37% faster at complex tasks than its predecessor, while offering enterprise-ready throughput at a cost of just $1 per hour with 100 transactions per second (TPS). The company positions this as a breakthrough for scalable long-horizon AI agents, enabling continuous, low-cost execution for complex workflows such as research assistants, customer service automation, and software maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A separate longitudinal comparison shows how rapidly Minimax has caught up. Over the past year, its M-series has climbed from 56% on SWE-Bench Verified (M1) to 80.2% (M2.5), outpacing even the steady improvements from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The M2.5 model is yet another indication of just how close China is to the US in AI progress. Just yesterday, Chinese company Z.ai had released <\/a>GLM-5, which had scored higher than Google’s flahship Gemini 3 Pro on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Minimax’s M2.5 has now performed better than both the Google and OpenAI flagship models on a popular coding benchmark. And while there has never been a better time to be a consumer of AI, China’s rise could also herald a change in the global world order and lead to it emerging as a equal challenger<\/a> to the US on the world stage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chinese models are now regularly beating models from frontier US models on some benchmarks. Minimax, one of China\u2019s leading AI companies, has unveiled…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/officechai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-27-1024x554.png?resize=640%2C346&ssl=1\")
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