MINIMAX

About MiniMax

Chinese multimodal AI company with text, image, and voice models. Building comprehensive AI services for entertainment and productivity.

Recent News about MiniMax

• WAIC 2026 forum launches China-wide standards for AI agents

  At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology hosted a forum on moving from large models to AI agents on July 18, reported July 19 local time. The event announced five major initiatives, including an interconnection and governance manifesto for AI agents, a safety protocol (ASL), and a terminal agent evaluation platform co-developed with firms such as Huawei, Alibaba, Ant Group and China’s big telecom operators. ([ex.chinadaily.com.cn](https://ex.chinadaily.com.cn/exchange/partners/82/rss/channel/cn/columns/h72une/stories/WS6a5cb114a310d709c2fbe529.html))

  Source: China Daily2026-07-19T11:12:17.000Z

• Moonshot Kimi K3 fuels China’s open-weight AI insurgency

  Axios reports that Beijing-based Moonshot AI’s new Kimi K3 model is accelerating a shift toward cheap, open-weight AI systems, with Chinese models topping usage charts on OpenRouter. The Eastern Herald separately details Kimi K3 as a 2.8-trillion-parameter, 1M‑token-context model whose open weights are due to be released on July 27, 2026.

  Source: Axios2026-07-18T13:00:00.000Z

• Zhipu and MiniMax double down on AGI as SenseTime open‑sources vision model

  On July 13, 2026, Chinese outlet Jiemian reported that Zhipu AI’s founder launched a two‑year “Touch High” plan focused on AGI research, while MiniMax’s CEO pledged zero salary until AGI and committed 5% equity to staff and open‑source initiatives. The same market note highlighted SenseTime’s full open‑sourcing of its unified visual model SenseNova‑Vision and rapid growth in Chinese model usage on OpenRouter.

  Source: Jiemian2026-07-13T21:07:25.486Z

• US export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 spotlight AI security risks

  On July 12, 2026, the Chinese-language Epoch Times reported that advanced AI models such as Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are raising US national security concerns, prompting export-control directives and scrutiny from Congress. The article cites US officials, cybersecurity experts, and Anthropic’s own statements about a government order suspending foreign national access to these models.

  Source: 大紀元時報 (Epoch Times Chinese edition)2026-07-12T13:06:26.298Z

• Anthropic and Chinese AI labs clash over chatbot distillation battle

  On July 6, 2026, the Washington Post reported that Anthropic secretly used tracking code to identify suspected Chinese corporate users of its Claude Code agent, aiming to stop them from 'distilling' its models to train rival systems. The report details how Anthropic and OpenAI have accused Chinese firms including Alibaba’s Qwen team, DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax of large-scale model distillation, prompting tighter U.S. export controls and access restrictions.

  Source: The Washington Post2026-07-06T09:00:00.000Z

• Xinhua maps June’s global AI shifts, from sovereignty to ‘physical AI’

  A July 1, 2026 Xinhua feature reviews June’s global AI developments, highlighting intensifying model competition, rising AI ‘technology sovereignty’ drives and early deployments of AI in physical robots. The piece notes OpenAI’s GPT‑5.6 launch, new Chinese models from MiniMax and Zhipu, US export controls on Anthropic, and policy moves by Canada, France and the EU, alongside Nvidia’s ENPIRE robotics research.([news.cn](https://www.news.cn/world/20260701/a7215e23c886416aabffbcef8e737e2b/c.html))

  Source: Xinhua (Xinhuanet)2026-07-01T12:14:03.000Z

• China’s AI labs push self-improving models to boost chip efficiency

  SendTech Times, citing South China Morning Post, reports on June 12 that Chinese labs at Xiaomi, MiniMax, Alibaba’s Qwen team, ByteDance and Tsinghua are using AI agents to automate kernel optimization and other research tasks. Projects claim up to 2× faster kernel tuning and multi‑day reductions in engineering time, positioning self‑improving systems as a way to stretch scarce AI chips. ([stechtimes.com](https://stechtimes.com/en/article/chinas-ai-labs-turn-selfimproving-models-into-a-chipefficiency-test-mqa8gwgl))

  Source: SendTech Times2026-06-12T05:06:48.098Z

• Huawei Cloud and top Chinese LLMs launch 'Hundred Models' AI ecosystem

  At the Huawei Cloud INSPIRE 2026 conference in Shanghai on June 5, 2026, Huawei Cloud announced the "Hundred Models, Thousand Forms, Cloud Aggregation for Win‑Win" ecosystem cooperation plan with more than 20 leading model vendors. Partners include Zhipu AI, DeepSeek, Minimax, Kimi, StepFun, Baidu, iFlytek Spark, Meituan and others, aiming to build a systematic commercial ecosystem around Chinese large models.

  Source: Eastmoney / 科创板日报2026-06-05T04:09:00.000Z

• MiniMax starts mainland China IPO process after Hong Kong AI debut

  Chinese LLM startup MiniMax has filed with the Shanghai securities regulator and signed CITIC Securities as sponsor to begin A‑share IPO tutoring, according to May 30 reports. The move comes months after MiniMax’s blockbuster Hong Kong listing and amid rapid ARR growth and intensifying competition with fellow Chinese frontier labs like DeepSeek.

  Source: The Business Times2026-05-30T07:14:00.000Z

• Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 API cuts spark 99% China AI price war

  Chinese media report that Xiaomi’s MiMo‑V2.5 large‑model API has permanently cut prices by up to 99%, with cache‑hit input as low as ¥0.025 (about $0.0036) per million tokens, effective May 27, 2026. A May 28 feature explains how Xiaomi and rival DeepSeek are using aggressive pricing and cache optimizations to attract developers and build a data and distribution moat despite rising compute and memory chip costs.([m.voc.com.cn](https://m.voc.com.cn/xhn/news/202605/32770665.html))

  Source: 新湖南 / 解放日报2026-05-28T06:48:00.000Z