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MiniMax Group Inc. is a Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in December 2021 in Shanghai by former SenseTime computer-vision researchers Yan Junjie, Yang Bin and Zhou Yucong. The company builds frontier large language models - most recently the 428-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts MiniMax M3 with 1M context window and Sparse Attention - alongside consumer products such as Hailuo AI video generation, MiniMax Speech, and the Talkie and Xingye character apps used by more than 236 million people worldwide.
MiniMax listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January 2026 and is regarded as one of China's six 'AI Tigers.' Prior investors include Alibaba, Hillhouse, HongShan, IDG Capital and Tencent, with MiHoYo backing its earliest rounds.