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…
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…
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, the Shanghai-based AI company founded by Yan Junjie, released Music 3 on August 13, 2026, an open-weights model that generates complete songs of up to five minutes from lyrics and a productio…
MiniMax founder Yan Junjie is promoting a developer livestream on fal about building with the H3 video model, featuring speakers Lovis Odin, Ethan Wei, and Victor Su-Ortiz, though no date or registrat…
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, posted a teaser on X asking followers to guess who appears in a video or picture, but the post's attachment was not accessible …
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based AI developer, plans to release the 2K regeneration stage of its H3 multimodal video model, publish sparse-attention reference code, and develop a unified model for image ge…
MiniMax, founded by Yan Junjie, launched its open-weight H3 video-generation model on July 31 and claims it is the highest-ranked open-weight video model on both Arena and Artificial Analysis. However…
MiniMax has released two H3 base checkpoints on Hugging Face under a standard community license, but the full 2K workflow still requires hosted services. The 288 GB repository includes H3-Base-FL2VA a…
MiniMax teased H3 as a unified multimodal model for Hailuo AI, saying only 'It's coming.' on X. The model, previewed at WAIC 2026, aims to interpret a shared context from text, images, video and sound…
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI, developer of the GLM-5.2 model, closed nearly flat on Monday at HK$1,645, defying a broad slump that saw rival MiniMax fall almost 20%, after pledging to prioritize advanc…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie pledged to forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while the Chinese AI firm seeks up to $2 billion in a discounted share sale after its sto…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie forgoes his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, as the Chinese AI firm seeks US$2 billion in funding after its stock plunged 80% from its peak. Ya…