MiniMax
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Chinese AI lab producing text, voice, and video generation models.
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- Frontier & Foundation Model Labs
- Founded
- 2021
- Status
- Active
- Open source
- No
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Funding stage
- Unknown
- Total raised
- —
- Popularity
- Rising
- Modality
- Multimodal
- GitHub stars
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Relationships
5 of 5 confirmed by two independent sources · 1 backed by a published source.
competes with3
- DeepSeekMiniMax competes with DeepSeek in Chinese large language models.
- Moonshot AI (Kimi)Moonshot AI competes with MiniMax in Chinese consumer and foundation AI.
- Zhipu AI (GLM)MiniMax competes with Zhipu AI in Chinese foundation models.
investor1
- Alibaba (Qwen)Alibaba invested in MiniMax through its foundation-model financing rounds.
References
Published sources supporting the relationships above.
- MiniMax vs DeepSeek: Benchmark by Model Size | Regolo.ai
unknown publisher · supports MiniMax competes with DeepSeek
- MiniMax-M2.7 vs DeepSeek V3.2 (Reasoning): Model Comparison
unknown publisher · supports MiniMax competes with DeepSeek
- DeepSeek vs MiniMax: V4 vs M2.5 Compared (2026)
unknown publisher · supports MiniMax competes with DeepSeek
- MiniMax M3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro: Open-Weight Chinese AI Showdown (June 2026) · CodingFleet Blog
unknown publisher · supports MiniMax competes with DeepSeek
News
- MiniMax CEO Vows to Forgo Salary Until Achieving AGI - The InformationThe Information · 7/10/2026
- Exclusive: China’s MiniMax Plans to Launch 2.7-Trillion Parameter Model - The InformationThe Information · 7/8/2026
- MiniMax Group - ForbesForbes · 6/24/2026
- Zhipu, MiniMax prep Shanghai listings: Why China's AI firms are moving back to the mainland - CNBCCNBC · 6/3/2026
- China’s MiniMax Launches New Model as Open-Source AI Coding Battle Heats Up - The InformationThe Information · 6/1/2026
- MiniMax teases M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism, 15.6X long-context response speed boost - VentureBeatVentureBeat · 5/27/2026
- New MiniMax M2.7 proprietary AI model is 'self-evolving' and can perform 30-50% of reinforcement learning research workflow - VentureBeatVentureBeat · 3/18/2026
- China’s MiniMax More Than Doubles Revenue in 2025 - The InformationThe Information · 3/2/2026
- China’s MiniMax Launches New Flagship AI Model M2.5 - The InformationThe Information · 2/12/2026
- MiniMax's new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1/20th of Claude Opus 4.6 - VentureBeatVentureBeat · 2/12/2026
- MiniMax doubles in Hong Kong debut, marking yet another Chinese AI listing - CNBCCNBC · 1/9/2026
- China’s MiniMax Launches New Open-Source AI Model - The InformationThe Information · 10/27/2025
- MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling) - VentureBeatVentureBeat · 10/27/2025
- Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. Discovery sue China's MiniMax for copyright infringement - CNBCCNBC · 9/16/2025
- MiniMax-M1 is a new open source model with 1 MILLION TOKEN context and new, hyper efficient reinforcement learning - VentureBeatVentureBeat · 6/16/2025
- Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry's best - TechCrunchTechCrunch · 1/15/2025
- Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test - Ars TechnicaArs Technica · 10/9/2024
- MiniMax's Hailuo AI adds img2video feature - VentureBeatVentureBeat · 10/8/2024
- MiniMax's AI video tool can create Star Wars battles in seconds – here's why that matters - VentureBeatVentureBeat · 9/10/2024
- Check out MiniMax Group's stock price (100-HK) in real time - CNBCCNBC · 8/10/2017
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