MiniMax M2.7 permits product sales

MiniMax is attempting a delicate balancing act by protecting IP from hosting arbitrage while courting the agent-building developer crowd. Ryan Lee's clarification distinguishes between selling model access (restricted) and selling products built via the model (permitted), with mandatory attribution acting as a brand-building flywheel for the MiniMax ecosystem. The self-evolving architecture achieved 30% performance gains through autonomous optimization, positioning it as a top-tier contender for agentic coding with performance approaching Claude 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro at a competitive price of $0.30 per 1M tokens.