MiniMax
Shanghai lab, linear-attention MoE models and consumer AI apps
MiniMax, backed by Alibaba and Tencent, released the MiniMax-01/M1 series in 2025 using lightning/linear attention to handle very long contexts efficiently. It runs popular consumer apps (Talkie/Xingye) and the Hailuo video generator. MiniMax pursued a Hong Kong IPO in 2025 as part of the wave of Chinese 'AI Tigers' going public.
Video model
Hailuo
Backers
Alibaba, Tencent
How it fits the stack
MiniMax with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
MiniMax in the AI stack. MiniMax with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
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- MiniMax —depends on→ Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)
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