Instructions to use MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5", trust_remote_code=True)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# pip install -U transformers accelerate
# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5", trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Inference
HuggingChat
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5

SGLang

How to use MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5
```

M2.5 community integration proposal: local MLX chat and tool-result replay

#71

by Raullen - opened 2 days ago

Discussion

Raullen

2 days ago

Proposing a community deployment example for MiniMax M2.5 users connecting a coding/search client to an Apple Silicon HTTP endpoint.

Rapid-MLX catalogs the M2.5 4-bit conversion and selects model-specific minimax tool and reasoning parsers. The useful example would make those observable via a plain response, a structured tool request and a second turn with the tool result. It should preserve your documented inference parameters and separate reasoning from the final answer in both streaming and nonstreaming requests.

This scope is M2.5 text serving only. MiniMax H3 video and M2.7 are different artifacts and endpoints; their presence in the catalog is not evidence for this model. An eventual recipe needs measured memory and exact runtime versions before recommending hardware.

Concrete catalog entry: minimax-m2.5-4bit → lmstudio-community/MiniMax-M2.5-MLX-4bit@9af822e97aaa5d3d8f9a635ec2b967b0c0a9a09f. This is a conversion/distribution artifact; it is not presented as an official upstream release.

Source references (fixed Rapid commit): catalog, parser selection, tool API guide.

Verification status: this proposal is based on reading the catalog, implementation and the linked documentation/tests. No fresh model inference or test-suite run was performed for this submission; source tests are not an end-to-end qualification. It requests a community documentation scope, not an official endorsement or a performance listing.

Disclosure: I maintain Rapid-MLX. Prepared with AI assistance under my direction. Anonymous usage-metadata telemetry is enabled by default; DO_NOT_TRACK=1 disables it. The original model and conversion terms continue to apply.

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