MiniMax Desktop Renamed to Mavis, Launches Multi-Agent Team Collaboration

According to monitoring by Dongcha Beating, MiniMax has upgraded its desktop Agent product and renamed it to Mavis (MiniMax as a Jarvis). The core new capability is Agent Teams: users can create teams composed of multiple Agents with different roles to collaboratively complete complex long tasks that a single Agent would struggle with. Additionally, the previously separate API and Agent subscriptions have been merged into one, allowing seamless integration of CLI, API, and Agent with shared quotas. MiniMax has also released a technical article explaining the design concept of Agent Teams, which was generated by an Agent Team itself—one Agent simulates user questions while another answers based on internal technical documentation. The article points out four core issues with a single Agent handling long tasks: unexpected interruptions during task execution, decreased output quality due to lengthy context, long tasks blocking user interactions, and the inability to achieve true role division in prompt-based role-playing. To address these issues, Mavis employs a code state machine instead of prompt orchestration to drive collaboration. The team has three roles: Owner responsible for task breakdown and scheduling, Worker focused on execution, and Verifier for independent acceptance. The Verifier and Worker form an adversarial mechanism, with strict isolation of context among roles, communicating only through structured summaries. MiniMax acknowledges in the article that multi-Agent collaboration introduces additional handover and aggregation costs, but for long, high-risk tasks, this structured overhead results in greater certainty in delivery outcomes.