MiniMax matches Claude Opus 4.5 in non-benchmaxxed evals, users report
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-27
teortaxesTex (78k followers) admits prejudice against MiniMax but says recent non-benchmaxxed evals show it matching or beating Claude Opus 4.5 (codenamed 1017), which is widely regarded as excellent. The quoted tweet jokes about a vendor with a weaker top LLM renting GPUs to Anthropic, reflecting ongoing community debate over model capability gaps.
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