Question 1

What is MiniMax known for?

Accepted Answer

Lightning attention for million-token context in open models, plus Hailuo video and speech models. Landmarks: MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention (2025); MiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attention (2025).

Question 2

Who leads MiniMax?

Accepted Answer

Yan Junjie, Founder.

Question 3

What kind of organization is MiniMax?

Accepted Answer

Startup lab, founded in 2021, based in Shanghai.

Year	Contribution	Source
2025	MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attentionarxiv.org	arxiv.org
2025	MiniMax-M1: Scaling Test-Time Compute Efficiently with Lightning Attentionarxiv.org	arxiv.org

Where	Link
Website	minimax.io
Blog	minimax.io/news
GitHub	MiniMax-AI
Hugging Face	MiniMaxAI
X	@MiniMax__AI

MiniMax

Known for

Leaders

Funding and compute

Links

Lab changes by email