Core Viewpoint - MiniMax has launched its self-developed MiniMax M1 model, which competes directly with DeepSeek R1 and Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro in terms of key technical specifications, architecture design, context processing capabilities, and training costs [1][2]. Group 1: Model Specifications - MiniMax M1 supports a context length of 1 million tokens, which is 8 times larger than DeepSeek R1's 128,000 tokens and only slightly behind Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro [1]. - The total parameter count for MiniMax M1 is 456 billion, with 45.9 billion parameters activated per token, while DeepSeek R1 has a total of 671 billion parameters but activates only 37 billion per token [1]. Group 2: Cost Efficiency - MiniMax M1 consumes only 25% of the floating-point operations compared to DeepSeek R1 when generating 100,000 tokens, and requires less than half the computational power for inference tasks of 64,000 tokens [2]. - The training cost for MiniMax M1 was only $535,000, significantly lower than the initial expectations and much less than the $5-6 million GPU cost for training DeepSeek R1 [2]. Group 3: Pricing Strategy - MiniMax M1 has a tiered pricing model for its API services based on the number of input or output tokens, with the first tier charging 0.8 yuan per million input tokens and 8 yuan per million output tokens, which is lower than DeepSeek R1's pricing [3]. - The pricing for the first two tiers of MiniMax M1 is lower than that of DeepSeek R1, and the third tier for long text is currently not covered by DeepSeek [3]. Group 4: Technology Innovations - MiniMax M1's capabilities are supported by two core technologies: the linear attention mechanism (Lightning Attention) and the reinforcement learning algorithm CISPO, which enhances efficiency and stability in training [2].