| Type | Frontier labs |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2021 |
| Founders | Yan Junjie |
| Headquarters | Shanghai, China |
| Website | minimax.io |
MiniMax funding filings
We found no Form D filed by MiniMax itself under this name. Many labs raise through foreign entities or file under a different legal name.
Investment vehicles named after MiniMax
2 special-purpose vehicles carrying the MiniMax name have filed a Form D, 0 of them in the last 12 months. SPVs pool money from smaller investors to buy into one company, often on the secondary market, so a rising count is a sign of investor demand.
- ICG Minimax 2024 Co-Investment I (Feeder) SCSp13 Dec 2024
- ICG Minimax 2024 Co-Investment I SCSp13 Dec 2024
Source: SEC EDGAR full-text search for "MiniMax", Form D. Name matches can include unrelated filers; tell us if one is wrong.
MiniMax research
12 papers in OpenAlex list an author affiliated with MiniMax (People's Republic of China) in the last 12 months. The most cited:
- Dendritic computation bridges neuroscience and foundation models15 Oct 2026 · 0 citations
- ClaimDiff-RL: Fine-Grained Caption Reinforcement Learning through Visual Claim Comparison19 May 2026 · 0 citations
- Accounting for Microclimatic Characteristics of Road Sections During Winter Maintenance18 May 2026 · 0 citations
- SpatialImaginer: Towards Adaptive Visual Imagination for Spatial Reasoning19 Apr 2026 · 0 citations
- CORAL: Towards Autonomous Multi-Agent Evolution for Open-Ended Discovery2 Apr 2026 · 0 citations
Source: OpenAlex (CC0), institution MiniMax (People's Republic of China), read 2 Nov 2026.
MiniMax models
Latest releases
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash17 Oct 2026
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music37 Aug 2026
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H328 Jul 2026
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3-MXFP82 Jun 2026
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M32 Jun 2026
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.79 Apr 2026
Most downloaded
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H36,140,874 downloads (30 days)
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.51,321,309 downloads (30 days)
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7330,252 downloads (30 days)
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3189,276 downloads (30 days)
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M297,486 downloads (30 days)
Source: Hugging Face Hub, organisation MiniMaxAI, read 2 Nov 2026.
MiniMax: quick answers
Who founded MiniMax?
MiniMax was founded in 2021 by Yan Junjie.
People at MiniMax
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