China’s MiniMax debuts M1 AI model that it says costs 200x less to train than OpenAI’s GPT-4

fortune.com/2025/06/18/chinas-minimax-m1-ai-model-200x-less-expensive-to-train-than-openai-gpt-4

It’s becoming a familiar pattern: every few months, an AI lab in China that most people in the U.S. have never heard of releases an AI model that upends conventional wisdom about the cost of training and running cutting edge AI.In January, it was DeepSeek’s R1 that took the world by…

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