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MiniMax
MiniMax is a Shanghai-based company that develops large-language, video, audio and image generation models, including its Hailuo video model.
MiniMax is a Shanghai-based company that develops large-language, video, audio and image generation models, including its Hailuo video model.
It is one of China's "AI tiger" startups and one of the first Chinese frontier AI labs to complete an IPO, giving public investors direct exposure to a Chinese foundation-model company.
It sells API access to its language, audio and multimodal AI models and offers consumer AI applications.
China (Shanghai)
Foundation models and AI laboratories. The organizations actually building the AI models themselves, like the systems behind ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. This is the most crowded, fastest-moving layer of the AI economy right now.
Connections (5)
Every connection below is tied to a readable source, date, classification and statement of its limits. A company source establishes what that company stated; it does not necessarily provide independent confirmation.
Current relationships (2)
Source: 2026-02-10 · reviewed 2026-09-24
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating
Limits: An availability announcement for one model on one date. It does not establish a commercial partnership between MiniMax and AWS, usage volumes, or that MiniMax was involved in the listing beyond releasing open weights.
Amazon Bedrock adds support for six fully-managed open weights models ↗Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Secondary reporting of an on-record executive statement · Reported operating
Limits: Does not establish Alibaba's current stake following the IPO's share issuance and dilution, or any operational/commercial relationship beyond equity ownership.
MiniMax's IPO Prospectus Reveals Alliance with Alibaba, Holding 13.66% Indirect Stake ↗Comparisons (3)
Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Ongoing
Limits: Does not establish market share or revenue comparison.
Six AI tigers ↗Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Ongoing
Limits: Does not establish market share or revenue comparison.
MiniMax (company) ↗Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-20
Evidence: Analytical comparison · Ongoing
Limits: Does not establish market share or revenue comparison.
MiniMax (company) ↗MiniMax doubles in Hong Kong debut, marking yet another Chinese AI listing ↗
Reviewed
Inclusion in this database is not an endorsement of a company or its securities. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and none of it is individualized investment advice. See the disclosures. Data: AI Map v3.22, released .