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Cerebras-GPT vs. MiniMax

LLM Comparison


Cerebras-GPT

Cerebras-GPT

Overview

The Cerebras-GPT family of models was developed by the AI accelerator company Cerebras following Chinchilla scaling laws as a demonstration of its Wafter-Scale Cluster technology.



Initial release: 2023-03-28

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MiniMax

Overview

MiniMax is an open-weight model family spanning language, reasoning, multimodal, and agentic workloads. MiniMax M3 is the current generation.


MiniMax introduced the open MiniMax-01 series in January 2025 and followed it with the M1 and M2 reasoning and agent models. MiniMax M3, released in June 2026, is a 428B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with about 23B active parameters. It combines native image and video understanding, a one-million-token context window, sparse attention, computer use, coding, and long-horizon agent capabilities.


Initial release: 2025-01-15

Current generation: MiniMax M3

Cerebras-GPT

MiniMax

Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Apache 2.0 MiniMax Community
Model Sizes 1.3B, 2.7B, 6.7B, 13B 428B (23B active)