MiniMax Office Skills: An open-source, production-grade office document engine

MiniMax has announced the open-sourcing of its production-grade Office document engine, MiniMax Office Skills, comprising four main components: Word, Excel, PDF, and PowerPoint, under the MIT license. This solution addresses the pain point of AI-generated documents being "usable but not user-friendly," ensuring the complete preservation of advanced features such as formulas, formatting, and pivot tables. In terms of technology selection, Word uses the .NET OpenXML SDK instead of python-docx, and Excel directly manipulates XML instead of openpyxl, achieving higher fidelity. (Source: Xiyu Technology)