MiniMax
Company www.minimaxi.com ● Covered in 17 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph LinkedIn
MiniMax (company) is featured for releasing multiple multimodal and audio-focused AI models, including MiniMax H3, which generates short 2K video clips with native stereo audio from combined text, image, video, and audio inputs, and MiniMax-Music3, an open-weights text-to-music system that produces complete five-minute songs from lyrics. The company’s work also appears in tooling and applications built on its models, such as MLX ports for local text-to-video generation and updates referenced by Fal’s H3 Max Live. Separately, MiniMax is mentioned in allegations by U.S. agencies and Anthropic about using techniques like distillation or data extraction from American frontier models to improve its systems.
Updated 15 September 2026
Signals
5 stories (-29%)
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12 sources
Source diversity
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4 events
Release activity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
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Nov 2025 → Sep 2026
Coverage span
As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Management
updated 2 Sep 2026- Silke Ahrns Geschäftsführerin
- Stephan Janzyk Leiter Personalentwicklung
- Przemysław Gonek General Manager Poland Design Centre & Senior R&D Director
- Martin Wurdack Leiter Region Süd
- Samuel Müller Leiter IT & Business Management
- Raymund Hertelt Leiter Produktmanagement Spezial-Brandschutzanlagen
- Malte Pohl Leiter Business Management
- Timo Duscher Head of Controlling
- Tawfic El-Farra Global Director of Detection
- Simona Weber Head Of Marketing
Recent changes
- Simona Weber joined as Head Of Marketing
- Tawfic El-Farra joined as Global Director of Detection
- Timo Duscher joined as Head of Controlling
- Malte Pohl joined as Leiter Business Management
- Raymund Hertelt joined as Leiter Produktmanagement Spezial-Brandschutzanlagen
- Samuel Müller joined as Leiter IT & Business Management
Latest developments
GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
MarkTechPost · 2 weeks ago ·
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Meta’s Play for Coding Data, Google Robotics Multi-Embodiment, MiniMax’s Open Video Model (With an Asterisk)
The Batch ·
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MiniMax Releases MiniMax-Music3: An Open-Weights Music Model Generating Complete Five-Minute Songs From Lyrics and a Structured Caption
MarkTechPost · 4 weeks ago ·
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PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx
Simon Willison's Weblog · 1 month ago ·
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MiniMax Releases MiniMax H3: An Omni-Modal Video Model That Generates 15-Second 2K Clips With Native Stereo Audio
MarkTechPost · 1 month ago ·
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2026
US NSA, CISA, and FBI issued an advisory accusing six Chinese AI firms of bulk distillation of capabilities from US frontier models Security issue
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model Open source release
DeepSeek releases V4-Flash-0731 model with improved agentic and coding performance at reduced pricing Model release
China regulates anthropomorphic AI services and emergence of facial data licensing marketplace Policy change
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight large language model Model release
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8 with improved agentic capabilities and dynamic workflows Model release
- Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”
- U.S. Agencies Accuse Six Chinese AI Firms of Siphoning Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok
- [AINews] Fal’s H3 Max Live breaks the infinite videogen barrier
- GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
- Meta’s Play for Coding Data, Google Robotics Multi-Embodiment, MiniMax’s Open Video Model (With an Asterisk)
- MiniMax Releases MiniMax-Music3: An Open-Weights Music Model Generating Complete Five-Minute Songs From Lyrics and a Structured Caption
- PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx
- MiniMax Releases MiniMax H3: An Omni-Modal Video Model That Generates 15-Second 2K Clips With Native Stereo Audio
- deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
- 🔮 Copy that: The curious case of AI distillation #594
- Chinese Labs' Latest Product? Roleplay
- LWiAI Podcast #247 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3
- Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 458
- Serving MiniMax-M3 for efficient inference: Unlocking 1M-Token Context and Multimodality Without Regrets
- Last Week in AI #339 - DLSS 5, OpenAI Superapp, MiniMax M2.7
2025
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops MiniMax-M3 · 2 sources
- Develops MiniMax H3 · 1 source
- Develops MiniMax M3 · 1 source
- Integrated with Claude · 1 source
- Develops M2.7 · 1 source
- Develops MiniMax Speech 2.6 Turbo · 1 source
- Develops M3 · 1 source
- Develops MiniMax-H3 · 1 source
- Supplies Humain-m3 · 1 source
- Develops MiniMax-Music3 · 1 source
Partnerships
- Together AI partnered with this company · 1 source