MiniMax has rebranded its desktop Agent product as Mavis, introducing a significant upgrade with the launch of multi-agent team collaboration. The new feature, Agent Teams, allows users to create teams of multiple agents with distinct roles to tackle complex, long-duration tasks that a single agent cannot manage effectively. This upgrade merges previously separate API and Agent subscriptions into a single plan, integrating CLI, API, and Agent functionalities under a unified quota. The company has also released a technical article detailing the design philosophy behind Agent Teams, highlighting challenges such as task interruptions and degraded output quality in single-agent systems. Mavis addresses these issues using a code-based state machine for collaboration, defining roles such as Owner, Worker, and Verifier to ensure task decomposition, execution, and validation. Despite acknowledging the overhead of multi-agent collaboration, MiniMax emphasizes its benefits for achieving deterministic outcomes in complex tasks.