Shanghai-based artificial intelligence (AI) start-up MiniMax has launched an open-source reasoning model that it said requires just half the computing resources of rival DeepSeek’s models for ...

MiniMax-M1 was released Monday under an Apache software license, and thus is actually open source, unlike Meta's Llama family, offered under a community license that's not open source, and DeepSeek, ...

Chinese AI upstart MiniMax released a new large language model, joining a slew of domestic peers inspired to surpass DeepSeek in the field of reasoning AI.

MiniMax, for example, saw its Talkie app surpass ten million downloads in its first eight months last year, making it the fourth most downloaded AI-integrated app in the US, ahead of Character.AI.

Chinese AI upstart MiniMax launched a new reasoning LLM called MiniMax-M1 which it claims is even better than DeepSeek's upgraded its AI model R1.

The impact of MiniMax’s M1 may ultimately be similar to what happened when Hangzhou-based DeepSeek released its R1 LLM model earlier this year.

All top five models were developed by United States corporations. The sixth place was taken by China's DeepSeek's R10528 model (68 points), while Alibaba's Qwen3, MiniMax, MoonshotAI's Kimi K2, and ...

MiniMax-M1 presents a flexible option for organizations looking to experiment with or scale up advanced AI capabilities while managing costs.