MiniMax
A Chinese firm spanning language, speech and video generation
China Frontier lab Mixed
WHAT IT IS
MiniMax was founded in 2021 and develops its own language, speech and video-generation capabilities. It ships the MiniMax-M language models and the Hailuo video generator, and releases some weights openly.
Why it matters
It pursues several modalities in parallel, advancing language, speech and video generation within one company — one of the few Chinese teams shipping across multiple generative tracks at once.
Key milestones
- 2021
Founded
- 2024
Released the Hailuo video model
- 2025
Released the MiniMax-M models