Per current documentation, the MiniMax Non-Commercial License prohibits commercial deployment without individually negotiated written authorization from MiniMax, making the weights unsuitable for EU commercial workloads out-of-the-box. Opaque training data and Shanghai-based publisher compound the EU AI Act and data-transfer gaps.
Sovereignty
Licence: MiniMax Non-Commercial LicenseCommercial: Non-commercial onlyTraining data: UndisclosedOrigin: China (Shanghai)
Licence facts
Parameters
~230B total / ~10B active
Architecture
Mixture-of-Experts (256 experts, 8 activated per token, 62 layers)
MiniMax Non-Commercial License blocks paid APIs, hosted SaaS, and any commercial fine-tuned derivative without individually negotiated written authorization — no MAU or revenue threshold, a blanket prohibition.
Chinese controller with no published EU-specific DPA or SCCs for weights usage; PRC data-access laws (DSL, PIPL) complicate Chapter V transfer analysis for any interaction with MiniMax-hosted endpoints.
No EU AI Act Article 53 training-data summary, no copyright opt-out statement, no systemic-risk disclosure — downstream EU deployers must generate their own GPAI conformity evidence.