MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a new AI model designed for tasks that require software tools, web interfaces, and long sequences of actions. In an official blog post, MiniMax announces that the model is available through its API, M Plan subscription, and MiniMax Code development environment. The company positions M3.1 Flash as a model for …
Chinese AI company MiniMax has introduced H3, a multimodal generation model that can work with text, images, video and audio in the same request. The company says the model can create clips up to 15 seconds long in 2K resolution with native stereo sound, while also supporting editing and motion transfer from reference videos. The …
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has released M2.5, a new large language model that the company says competes with top-tier models from Anthropic and Google while costing significantly less to run. MiniMax offers two versions through its API. M2.5-Lightning runs at 100 tokens per second and costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million …
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has launched MiniMax-M2, a new large language model available under a permissive MIT license for free commercial use. The company states the model is specifically designed for complex “agentic” tasks, where AI acts independently to use software tools, and for programming. According to a report by VentureBeat, citing the independent benchmarking …
Chinese AI company MiniMax has released MiniMax-M1, a new open-source language model that can process up to one million tokens of context. This makes it capable of handling entire book collections in a single conversation, reports Carl Franzen for VentureBeat. The model is available for free commercial use under an Apache 2.0 license on platforms …
Singapore-based AI company MiniMax has launched a new open-source language model that can process up to 4 million tokens at once, doubling the previous record. According to Carl Franzen’s report in VentureBeat, the MiniMax-01 series includes both text and visual capabilities. The model uses an innovative “Lightning Attention” architecture and mixture of experts framework with …
Chinese AI start-ups are targeting the US market to boost revenue growth, inspired by TikTok’s international success amid a challenging domestic landscape. Companies like MiniMax, ByteDance, and 01.ai are launching AI products overseas, particularly focusing on the lucrative US user base, reports the Financial Times. MiniMax, backed by major investors, projects $70 million in sales …
Hailuo AI, a product of Chinese startup MiniMax, has launched a new image-to-video conversion feature. The tool allows creators to transform static images into dynamic video content. As reported by Carl Franzen in VentureBeat, Hailuo AI now offers a competitive platform that combines both text and image inputs. The company, backed by tech giants Alibaba …
Chinese startup MiniMax is making waves in the tech world with its new AI video generator. As Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat, the Alibaba- and Tencent-backed company’s tool can create stunning videos, including Star Wars battle scenes, in seconds. Filmmaker Dave Clark demonstrated the service’s capabilities in a funny little video that went viral. MiniMax …