Chinese AI startup MiniMax has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong initial public offering, targeting a valuation of over $4 ...

MiniMax-M1 presents a flexible option for organizations looking to experiment with or scale up advanced AI capabilities while managing costs.

The open-source M1 boasts a record-breaking context window and lean training budget, promising enterprise-grade reasoning without hyperscaler resources — and reshaping the AI playing field.

The Shanghai-based company touted the efficiency of its new MiniMax-M1 model in handling complicated productivity tasks, claiming it outdoes all closed-source competitors from China in a statement.

MiniMax, for example, saw its Talkie app surpass ten million downloads in its first eight months last year, making it the fourth most downloaded AI-integrated app in the US, ahead of Character.AI.

MiniMax , an AI company based in Shanghai, China, has announced that it will open source its latest large-scale language model (LLM) , MiniMax-M1 . MiniMax-M1 supports the world's longest ...

The Shanghai-based firm said its open-source M1 model is more efficient in tasks including maths and coding than the popular DeepSeek-R1.

This week, it’s a Shanghai-based upstart called MiniMax, best known previously for releasing AI-generated video games, that is the talk of the AI industry thanks to the M1 model it debuted on June 16.

Chinese AI upstart MiniMax launched a new reasoning LLM called MiniMax-M1 which it claims is even better than DeepSeek's upgraded its AI model R1.