This AI Improved Itself 100 Times Overnight. Nobody Stopped It.

MiniMax M2.7 didn’t just pass the PhD benchmark. It trained for it alone.

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66.6%.

That’s the number that should be making people uncomfortable. Not because it’s a record, but because of how it was reached.

On March 18, 2026, Chinese AI company MiniMax released its M2.7 model with an announcement that reads more like a systems architecture paper than a product launch. With a score of 66.6% on OpenAI’s MLE-Benc…