Chinese AI startup MiniMax reported first-half revenue of $116.6 million for the six months ended June 30, a 283.1% surge from a year earlier, driven by demand for its low-cost models and AI platform.…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp's July 1 CNBC remarks on data ownership highlight a contractual gap in OpenAI and Anthropic agreements: reasoning tokens from AI models may not be legally protected as customer …
Chinese AI firm MiniMax reported a 283% surge in first-half revenue to US$116.6 million, driven by a 703% jump in enterprise revenue to US$73.9 million, but the total remains only 32% of the US$363.77…
MiniMax promoted an H3 integration index on August 25, cataloging community tools for local deployment on 24GB GPUs, ComfyUI nodes, and multi-GPU serving via SGLang and vLLM-Omni, three weeks after re…
MiniMax, founded by Yan Junjie, is offering 14 days of unlimited access to four models—M3, M2.7, Speech 2.8, and Music 3.0—through GMI Cloud, with the promotion running through September 6. The deal g…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported a 75% drop in net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, and announced a HK$80bn ($10.2bn) share placement in Hong Kong to fund AI investment, the largest prim…
MiniMax released the H3 Turbo LoRA, a 780MB adapter that cuts local video generation sampling from 20 steps to about 6 in ComfyUI for its 33 billion parameter MiniMax H3 model, which generates video w…
MiniMax M3 Medium, developed by MiniMax and accessed via OpenRouter, achieved a 73.17% F1 score on the DeepSearchQA benchmark, approaching the performance of GPT-5 High. The model completed 8 of 9 tri…
MiniMax hinted at its M3 model running on SambaNova hardware in an undated post, but the linked SambaNova demonstration identifies the model as M2.7 and provides no M3 benchmark results. MiniMax relea…
Chinese-developed models now carry more than 60% of traffic on OpenRouter, the neutral routing platform, with Xiaomi's MiMo V2.5 ranking first by token volume in July, while US models' share fell from…
OpenCode founder Jay V reported on X that the company's $10-per-month Go subscription surpassed 301,000 active subscribers, with a dashboard showing 301,018 accounts and 14.6% growth. At standard pric…
New research from Duke University found that 'creative' output across 69 AI models from 12 provider families, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta, has become statistically significantly more…
Binance launched Binance Ai Pro beta on March 25 for eligible users, allowing AI agents to execute trades and run strategies in a separate virtual sub-account with no withdrawal permissions, but losse…
0G Labs' Private Computer has processed over 250 billion tokens across 17 million requests since its April 27 launch, and now supports 28 AI models and U.S. dollar payments via Stripe. The platform ha…
The KV cache has no standard ABI, with vLLM's FlashAttention backend alone reporting its cache shape as a four-dimensional tensor that varies by backend, attention variant, and model family, complicat…
Google rolled out a phone feature that recognizes sign language in real time, enabling Deaf users to communicate via camera without typing or third-party apps. A startup began renting home-cleaning ro…
MiniMax, led by founder, chairman and CEO Yan Junjie, posted an undated workout joke on X pairing its open-weight model pitch with Vercel's v0 AI application builder, promising "Mini chest maxxing wit…
MiniMax, the generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, is pitching its H3 video model as a generator for animated game sprites, claiming it can maintain consistent character motion across frames wh…
MiniMax released MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music model that generates complete songs of up to five minutes from lyrics and a structured caption, outputting 32 kHz, 16-bit stereo WAV. The…
China shipped almost 20,000 humanoid robots in 2025, fueling a new independent repair industry of 'robot doctors' who fix robots faster and cheaper, though they face challenges such as scarce custom c…