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MiniMax Adds M3.1-Flash-Preview Coding Model to MiniMax Code
MiniMax introduced M3.1-Flash-Preview inside its MiniMax Code agent tool on September 27, 2026. The coding model supports a context window of up to 1 million tokens and offers five reasoning-effort se...
MiniMax's Open-Weight M3 Becomes the Base for Saudi Arabia's Sovereign HUMAIN-M3
At LEAP 2026 on September 3, HUMAIN — the Saudi PIF-backed AI company chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — launched HUMAIN-M3, an Arabic-focused model built on MiniMax's open-weight M3. It ke...
MiniMax's open-weight H3 video model is now fast enough that outside developers are building semi-real-time character chat apps on top of it.
A Japanese developer built "FastH3 Date Chat," an app that lets a user converse with an AI character entirely through generated video instead of text or voice. The setup runs on two workstations: an R...
MiniMax and fal.ai ship H3 Max, a faster-than-realtime video model behind a new interactive AI livestream.
fal.ai opened a free demo site for MiniMax's H3 Max video model, generating 480p, five-second clips with audio in about three seconds from text or image prompts; registered users get five free generat...
MiniMax H3 Gains fal Optimization, Cutting Five-Second Video Generation to Three Seconds
fal has introduced MiniMax H3 Max, an optimized deployment of the open-weight MiniMax H3 video model. The source reports a five-second 768p clip in roughly 3.3 seconds and a 15-second clip in about 13...
MiniMax raises Alibaba Cloud spending ceiling 220% to $1.2 billion through 2028
MiniMax has raised the three-year purchase ceiling on its cloud computing deal with Alibaba Group by 220%, to US$1.2 billion, after the Shanghai-based AI company burned through two-thirds of its 2026...
MiniMax H3 community unlocks Context Loop for open-weight local video
An August 17 ASCII.jp hands-on reports that MiniMax H3, the open-weight video generation model released August 2, is already stretching past the usual local-video limits. Global experimentation has su...
MiniMax H3 open-weight video generation model launches, free to test with local execution and Omni Reference
Chinese AI lab MiniMax has released MiniMax H3, an open-weight video generation model that the company claims matches ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 in cloud service performance while remaining locally exec...
MiniMax H3 multimodal generation model tops global video benchmarks, open-sources on Hugging Face.
MiniMax has open-sourced its new general-purpose multimodal generation model, MiniMax H3, which has achieved the top ranking on Artificial Analysis's video editing benchmarks and the Arena image-to-vi...
MiniMax completes 16 billion HKD funding round, CEO Yan Junjie publishes internal letter.
MiniMax, the Chinese AI startup known for its foundation models and generative AI products, has completed a massive 16 billion HKD (approximately $2.04 billion) funding round. CEO Yan Junjie published...
MiniMax open-sources M3 multimodal flagship model, adapted for Moore Threads' MTT S5000 GPU
MiniMax has open-sourced its new flagship multimodal model M3, and domestic GPU maker Moore Threads confirmed Day-0 adaptation for its MTT S5000 AI card. The collaboration pairs a domestic foundation...
MiniMax M3 launch challenges closed-source frontier with Token Plan pricing and three-in-one capability
Chinese AI lab MiniMax has released the M3 model, a flagship foundation model that combines long-context (1M tokens), native multimodal (text+image from pretraining), and advanced coding capabilities...
MiniMax releases M3 frontier model for coding agents with one-million-token context
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based AI lab listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, has launched M3, a frontier model designed for coding agents with a one-million-token context window and native multimodal in...
MiniMax prepares for mainland China listing after Hong Kong IPO surge
MiniMax Group, the Shanghai-based AI model company, has hired Citic Securities to prepare a yuan-denominated public offering in mainland China, likely on the Star Market. The move follows a stellar Ho...
MiniMax teases M3 model with sparse attention, claiming 15.6x speed boost
Chinese foundation model lab MiniMax has previewed its upcoming M3 model, which incorporates a novel sparse attention mechanism designed to dramatically accelerate long-context inference. The company...
MiniMax unveiled Music 2.6, cutting initial latency to under 20 seconds and adding a new AI‑generate...
MiniMax unveiled Music 2.6, cutting initial latency to under 20 seconds and adding a new AI‑generated cover feature. The model now supports 100+ instruments, richer low‑mid frequencies, and more natur...
Chinese AI startup MiniMax Group has surged to a $45 billion market cap in just two months since lis...
Chinese AI startup MiniMax Group has surged to a $45 billion market cap in just two months since listing, surpassing Baidu despite generating 239x less revenue. The stock rocketed 640% driven by the O...
MiniMax shares surged 21% after reporting 159% revenue growth to $79 million, with over 70% of sales...
MiniMax shares surged 21% after reporting 159% revenue growth to $79 million, with over 70% of sales from outside China in its first post-IPO earnings. This signals that China's open-source, low-cost...
MiniMax released M2.5, achieving 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified at 1/20th the cost of Claude Opus 4.6.
MiniMax released M2.5, achieving 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified at 1/20th the cost of Claude Opus 4.6. Activating only 10B parameters, it provides frontier reasoning for just $0.15 per 1M input tokens. T...
MiniMax Group (0100.HK) raised 619 million USD in its Hong Kong IPO, with shares surging 108 percent...
MiniMax Group (0100.HK) raised 619 million USD in its Hong Kong IPO, with shares surging 108 percent on debut. Following Z.AI’s listing, this marks a systemic shift as AI foundation model developers p...