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

These scores place it at or near the level of top proprietary systems like GPT-5 (thinking) and Claude Sonnet 4.5, making ...
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 ...
Seeking Alpha

What is MiniMax? The Chinese 'new AI tiger' making waves

Chinese AI startup MiniMax is making waves after it claimed that its new reasoning large language model called MiniMax-M1 was even better than DeepSeek's (DEEPSEEK) upgraded AI model R1. MiniMax, a ...
The Information

China’s MiniMax Launches New Open-Source AI Model

Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax launched a new open-source large language model on Monday whose performance is ranked the highest among such models on some leaderboards. The new model, ...
VentureBeat

MiniMax unveils its own open-source LLM with industry-leading 4M token context

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now MiniMax is perhaps today best known here in ...
Reuters

Chinese AI firm MiniMax targets $4 billion-plus valuation in Hong Kong IPO, sources say

HONG KONG, July 16 (Reuters) - Chinese AI startup MiniMax has filed confidentially for a Hong Kong initial public offering, targeting a valuation of over $4 billion in the flotation, which could ...