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MiniMax

Shanghai, ChinaFounded 2021500-1000 employees
Foundation Models
Multimodal AI
Generative AI
Series C

Overview

MiniMax is a Shanghai-based AI unicorn building multimodal foundation models spanning text, voice, and video generation. The company is behind Hailuo AI video generator and Talkie character AI platform, both of which have gained significant global traction.

Leadership

Yan Junjie

Founder & CEO

Latest News

MiniMax M2.7: The $0.30 Chinese Model That Evolves Itself

China's MiniMax drops a self-evolving AI that rewrites its own code and costs 50x less than Western rivals.

MiniMax M2.5 Undercuts Western AI Labs on Price

A Shanghai lab just matched frontier AI performance at a twentieth of the price. The token economy will never look the same.

Company Details

Location

Shanghai, China

Founded

2021

Funding Stage

Series C

$900M

Employees

500-1000

Categories

Foundation Models
Multimodal AI
Generative AI

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