MiniMax vs. WizardLM

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

Reference

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m3

Further Reading

• https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-01-series-2
• https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m3
• https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3

Overview

WizardLM is a variant of LLaMA trained with complex instructions.

WizardLM is a LLM based on LLaMA trained using a new method, called Evol-Instruct, on complex instruction data. By using AI to "evolve" instructions, WizardLM outperforms similar LLaMA-based LLMs trained on simpler instruction data. On the 6th of July, 2023, WizardLM V1.1 was released with significantly improved performance, and as of 15 April 2024, WizardLM-2 was released with state-of-the-art performance.

Initial release: 2023-05-26

Reference

https://github.com/nlpxucan/WizardLM

Further Reading

• https://huggingface.co/WizardLM
• https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12244
• https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/142iw20/official_wizardlm30b_v10_released_can_beat/