# MiniMax

[https://timesof.ai/platform/minimax](https://timesof.ai/platform/minimax)

Shanghai-based AI lab building cost-efficient, high-performance models optimized for real-world agentic and productivity workloads.

MiniMax focuses on dramatically lowering inference costs while maintaining near-frontier capabilities for coding, tool use, and office productivity tasks. Its releases emphasize open weights availability alongside API offerings.

## Coverage

- [Six Chinese Open-Weight Models Carry a Blackwell Fingerprint, an Independent Weight Analysis Finds, but It Cannot Say Where the Chips Were](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/blackwell-fingerprints-deepseek-moonshot-minimax-ant-open-weights-unemployment-labs) — An Unemployment Labs analysis says DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group models were initialized on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. Location and legality unproven.
- [MiniMax's Open-Weight H3-Image Makes 4K Pictures in Seconds, Under a Licence That Shuts Out the US, EU, UK and Korea](https://timesof.ai/2026/11/minimax-h3-image-open-weights-4k-license-excludes-us-eu-uk-korea) — MiniMax's open-weight H3-Image (33.1B DiT, six steps) claims 4K in under 10s. Licence excludes the US, EU, UK and Korea; $1M revenue cap.
- [China's AI Export Draft: DeepSeek and MiniMax Cleared for Overseas Use, a State-Media Account Says, Under Rules Covering 23 Technologies](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/china-mofcom-draft-export-controls-23-ai-technologies) — A CCTV-affiliated account says DeepSeek and MiniMax were cleared for overseas use under China's draft controls on 23 AI technologies.
- [China's Nine Leading AI Developers Published Model-Specific Safety Results for 3.6% of 857 Releases, SemiAnalysis Finds](https://timesof.ai/2026/10/semianalysis-china-ai-safety-disclosure-3-6pct) — SemiAnalysis: 31 of 857 releases by nine Chinese AI developers had published model-specific safety results; 9 at launch. No U.S. comparison in the report.
- [MiniMax M2.5 Pitches Lower Output-Token Costs With Vendor Coding Results](https://timesof.ai/2026/02/minimax-releases-m2-5-low-cost-frontier-productivity-model) — MiniMax reports M2.5 SWE-Bench Verified 80.2%; Lightning 100 tok/s and output-token pricing about 1/10–1/20 of cited frontier models.