MiniMax
5 published articles
AI Video Generation
MiniMax launches Hailuo 2.3 video model with enhanced motion and style support
MiniMax's Hailuo 2.3 video model improves motion rendering, expands style support for anime and CG, and delivers more natural facial expressions. The companion Media Agent lets users create videos from text, images, and audio with a single click.
2026-07-07
Artificial Intelligence
MiniMax's product blitz: new models for code, music, and video in one broad refresh
Chinese AI startup MiniMax launches MiniMax M3, Hailuo 2.3, MiniMax Code, and new speech/music models, broadening its product lineup in a competitive landscape.
2026-07-06
Artificial Intelligence
MiniMax M3 broke the open-weight ceiling with a 9.4x CUDA speedup and zero human help
MiniMax M3 delivers a 9.4x CUDA kernel speedup, beats Opus 4.7 on BrowseComp, and autonomously replicated an ICLR paper. All in an open-weight package.
2026-07-06
Artificial Intelligence
MiniMax's new M2.5 coding model tops the benchmark at 5% of the price
MiniMax's M2.5 model tops the Multi-SWE-Bench coding benchmark, beats mainstream models on workspace tasks, and costs a tenth to a twentieth of competitors. Open-source weights are on HuggingFace.
2026-07-04
AI Research & Development
Ma Jiaqi taught MiniMax engineers a hard lesson about forgotten tokens
MiniMax's internal investigation into why its M2 model couldn't output the name 'Ma Jiaqi' revealed a structural mismatch between pre-training vocabulary and post-training data distribution. The root cause: low-frequency tokens' lm_head vectors drift during SFT, losing generation ability while retaining understanding. A full-vocabulary coverage fix resolved the issue and also mitigated language mixing in Japanese.
2026-07-04