MiniMax is a China-headquartered AI foundation model company that develops proprietary multimodal large language models (covering text, speech, image, video, and music) and deploys them through consumer-facing products like Hailuo AI (video generation), Talkie, and MiniMax Agent, as well as an enterprise/developer Open API Platform. Founded in 2022, the company has served over 236 million individual users across 200+ countries and more than 214,000 enterprises and developers globally.
“Chinese AI developer MiniMax says its new M3 model approaches Claude Opus 4.7-level performance while costing roughly 40x less per million input tokens.”
Source→“Yang Songlin from MiniMax — I had previously heard that they internally favor absorption over linear attention. I personally think absorption is a more controllable engineering solution.”
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