We break down China’s new open-source reasoning model, MiniMax-M1: real benchmarks, hidden tradeoffs, and how it stacks up ...

Chinese AI firm MiniMax has announced that its new AI reasoning model, MiniMax-M1, outperforms its domestic rival DeepSeek’s latest offering, DeepSeek-R1-0528, especially in efficiency and… ...

MiniMax, for example, saw its Talkie app surpass ten million downloads in its first eight months last year, making it the fourth most downloaded AI-integrated app in the US, ahead of Character.AI.

Shanghai-based MiniMax has launched its M1 model, a powerful and efficient open-weight AI that directly challenges rival DeepSeek on performance, cost, and its "true open-source" Apache 2.0 ...

MiniMax-M1 was released Monday under an Apache software license, and thus is actually open source, unlike Meta's Llama family, offered under a community license that's not open source, and DeepSeek, ...

The impact of MiniMax’s M1 may ultimately be similar to what happened when Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released its R1 LLM model earlier this year. DeepSeek claimed that R1 functioned on par with ...

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The highly anticipated launch of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek’s next-generation R2 model has been indefinitely stalled, a ...

What's the story. Shanghai-based MiniMax has launched an open-source AI reasoning model that rivals Chinese competitor DeepSeek and US-based OpenAI and Google in terms of performance and cost. The ...

MiniMax is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong, people familiar with the situation said, in what would be a ...