This week, MiniMax, an Alibaba- and Tencent-backed startup that has raised around $850 million in venture capital and is valued at more than $2.5 billion, debuted three new models: MiniMax-Text-01 ...

MiniMax has introduced MiniMax-M1, a new open-weight reasoning model built to handle extended contexts and complex problem-solving with high efficiency. Built on top of the earlier MiniMax-Text-01, M1 ...

MiniMax-M1 distinguishes itself with a context window of 1 million input tokens and up to 80,000 tokens in output, positioning it as one of the most expansive models available for long-context ...

MiniMax is perhaps today best known here in the U.S. as the Singaporean company behind Hailuo, a realistic, high-resolution generative AI video model that competes with Runway, OpenAI’s Sora and ...

China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firms MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based ...

Chinese AI startup MiniMax has thrown down the gauntlet to established AI giants, releasing what it boldly claims is the world’s first open-source, large-scale hybrid-attention reasoning model ...

MiniMax has released a new large language model, MiniMax-M1, which it claims is more efficient than closed-source competitors from China and outperforms DeepSeek's latest R1-0528 model in several ...

Chinese AI startup MiniMax is making waves after it claimed that its new reasoning large language model called MiniMax-M1 was even better than DeepSeek's (DEEPSEEK) upgraded AI model R1. MiniMax ...