Update: MiniMax responds to M2.7 License Controversy, stating that tightening commercial use is to prevent poor-quality hosting from damaging the brand

According to 1M AI News monitoring, MiniMax Developer Relations Lead Ryan Lee has published a lengthy response to the M2.7 license controversy. The reason he provided is: In previous versions, third-party platforms repeatedly engaged in over-quantification, template errors, and even model switching, resulting in a user experience far below the official version's quality, causing reputational damage to MiniMax. A completely permissive license implies that MiniMax cannot hold them accountable for this. The new license is meant to set a threshold in the commercial hosting process.

Ryan Lee emphasized that non-commercial use, research, and personal use are still free to use under the MIT terms. Commercial licensing requests can be made through X private message or api@minimax.io, and he stated that if the license text inadvertently harms the boundaries of community's reasonable use, he is willing to modify the terms rather than forcefully defend them.

A tweet previously published by the MiniMax official account stating "officially open source" has been annotated by the X community, indicating that this license does not align with the Open Source Initiative's (OSI) definition of open source.