https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b Dated changes, score moves with their causes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for MiniCPM5-2B. en Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:56:18 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b#rev_3779 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b#rev_3779 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B on 7 September 2026, committed on seven days that month and fixed the chat template on 29 September for GitHub issue 379. Members answered 16 of 18 discussions, most within three days. Earlier checkpoints keep their own repositories, and the GitHub changelog dates each release. The caveat is the derived builds, as the GGUF, MLX and GPTQ repositories last changed on 12 September and still carry the template from before the fix. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b#rev_3780 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b#rev_3780 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review OpenBMB's Q4_K_M GGUF is 1.56 GB and its MLX 4-bit build 1.42 GB, so a laptop or phone covers the hardware. The LICENSE is Apache 2.0, but the card's disclaimer limits use to lawful, compliant and ethical purposes and prohibits deliberate jailbreaking and injection attacks, which reads as a use policy on top. Nothing is hosted by OpenBMB or any provider on Hugging Face's list, and Chinese hosts weren't searched. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b#rev_3781 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b#rev_3781 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review XML tool calls and the minicpm5 parser are documented on the card, and OpenBMB's cookbooks show the tools request and returned calls. The same cookbooks call Think the only supported mode for the 2B while the template accepts enable_thinking false, and still say the parsers are in no pip release, which vLLM 0.29.0 and SGLang 0.5.16 have changed. No structured output or cut-off. Its seven independent results show little on tool tasks, with 0.0 on Artificial Analysis's Terminal-Bench 4.0 run. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b#rev_3782 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b#rev_3782 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review MiniCPM5-2B's card says crafted prompts can manipulate it and tells users to configure their own safeguards, which is the extent of its guidance. No safety results exist, and the tech report link points to the MiniCPM4 paper. Files are one safetensors file and GGUF builds with a SHA-256 each, loading without trust_remote_code. The card limits use to ethical purposes and prohibits jailbreaking. There's no SECURITY.md and no security.txt on openbmb.cn or modelbest.cn. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing MiniCPM5-2B is OpenBMB's open-weight dense language model of 2.5B parameters for on-device and local use, with thinking, XML tool calls and a 131,072-token context, published on Hugging Face in BF16, GGUF, MLX and GPTQ under Apache 2.0.