MiniMax
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MiniMax - overview
Established
2022
Location
Shanghai, -, China
Primary Industry
Internet
About
Based in Shanghai, China, and founded in 2022, Shanghai Xiyu Jizhi Technology Co. , Ltd. , trading as MiniMax, is an artificial intelligence company that focuses on artificial intelligence infrastructure construction. Junjie Yan, the co-founder of the company, graduated from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is the former vice president of Shang Tang Research Institute.
The company cooperated with Tencent, XIAOMI, DOUYU. COM, and other enterprises. In December 2025, MiniMax raised a strategic investment from new investor Visual China Group's wholly owned subsidiary Elephant Vision Technologies Limited. MiniMax has developed three basic models including text-to-visual, text-to-audio, and text-to-text.
The company's proprietary multimodal models are MiniMax M2, Hailuo 2. 3, Speech 2. 6 and Music 2. 0.
The company's major AI-native products — including MiniMax Agent, Hailuo AI, MiniMax Audio, Talkie, and our enterprise and developer-facing Open API Platform — which collectively deliver intelligent, dynamic experiences to enhance productivity and quality of life for users worldwide. MiniMax can offer summarized answers by a large model after users express their intent through natural language. It can also enhance text generation, task distribution, form processing, and other capabilities of office software. The company generates revenue by developing artificial intelligence infrastructure construction.
Current Investors
Future Capital Discovery Advisory (Hong Kong) Limited, IDG Capital, Yunqi Partners
Primary Industry
Internet
Sub Industries
Web Applications, Software
Website
www.minimax.io/
Verticals
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Company Stage
Mature
Total Amount Raised
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