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China’s MiniMax debuts 3 open-source models to rival top US-made chatbots

MiniMax, a Chinese startup has released three low-cost open-source AI models, which it has pitched to compete with top chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other US-made models. According to an SCMP ...
TechCrunch

Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s best

Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based AI companies. MiniMax claims that MiniMax-Text-01, which is 456 billion ...
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MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek – plus it's true open source

MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.… ...
VentureBeat

MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

AI vector art flat illustration in dark blue, teal and orange yellow tones of giant humanoid robot with crown raising fist in front of computer monitor on desk surrounded by diverse office worker ...
Ars Technica

Is China pulling ahead in AI video synthesis? We put Minimax to the test.

After 22 million views and thousands of death threats, I felt like I needed to take this post down for my own mental health. This trailer was an EXPERIMENT to show my 300 friends on X how far we've ...