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MiniMax

Shanghai, Shanghai, China · minimax.io

MiniMax develops open-weight and proprietary multimodal foundation models for text, code, agents, speech, image, video and music, offered through APIs and its own apps.

AI Core · watchlist · score 53

Positioning

Independent Chinese lab, Hong Kong listed; renter of compute, consumer and API revenue.

Latest signals

  • DeepSeek and MiniMax completed China’s AI export registrations and proceeded with open-source releases and overseas licensing.SCMP Tech
  • MINIMAX completed China’s technology-export registrations for models intended for open-source release and overseas licensing.Yicai
  • MiniMax released open weights for its 428-billion-parameter M3.1 Flash model.TechNode
  • DeepSeek and MiniMax were reported to have received China’s approval for global AI activity.Tech in Asia
  • MiniMax shares surged nearly 17% in Hong Kong trading.36Kr newsflashes

134 signals name MiniMax. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.

Facts, with sources

  • MiniMax Code CLI officially open-sourcedProduct launch · rsshub.bkraju.com — 2026-09-18
  • Post-training optimization enables order-of-magnitude speed and cost gains for video generation modelsProduct launch · a16z — 2026-09-17
  • MiniMax HDMax Turbo achieves 35x speedup and 2x cost reduction for 5-second video generationProduct launch · a16z — 2026-09-17
  • MiniMax HDMax Turbo launched publiclyProduct launch · a16z — 2026-09-17

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Scores, AI Core (of 10)

Deployment7
Production4
Commercials4
Progress9
Technology4
Positioning4
Firepower6
Leverage4

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Categories

AI CoreAI · Models & applications / Open-weight labs

Questions this page answers

What does MiniMax do?

MiniMax develops open-weight and proprietary multimodal foundation models for text, code, agents, speech, image, video and music, offered through APIs and its own apps. Independent Chinese lab, Hong Kong listed; renter of compute, consumer and API revenue.

Where does MiniMax rank in ai core?

MiniMax is on the AI Core watchlist list of Frontier Tech Intelligence with a score of 53 out of 100, below the Top 100.

Where is MiniMax based and when was it founded?

MiniMax is based in Shanghai, Shanghai, China.

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