biology

MiniMax Group

MiniMax Group is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand MiniMax Group rather than just read about it. In short: MiniMax Group Inc. (Chinese: 稀宇科技; pinyin: Xīyǔ Kējì ) is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Shanghai, China.

Key takeaways

MiniMax Group belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect MiniMax Group to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of MiniMax Group from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

MiniMax Group Inc. (Chinese: 稀宇科技; pinyin: Xīyǔ Kējì ) is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Shanghai, China. It develops multimodal AI models and consumer applications, including the AI character apps Talkie and Xingye and the video-generation service Hailuo AI. The company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January 2026. It is one of China's 6 "AI Tigers".

History MiniMax was founded in December 2021 by several computer vision researchers from SenseTime. When it first started out, it received funding from MiHoYo. The company's name comes from the Minimax algorithm. In January 2022, MiniMax began R&D operations, and in April launched abab1, its first text model. The next iteration, abab2, completed training in June, followed by abab3 in October with an increased parameter count. In March 2024, Alibaba Group led a $600 million financing round for MiniMax giving it a valuation of $2.5 billion. Other investors of MiniMax include GL Ventures, HongShan, IDG Capital and Tencent. On 9 January 2026, MiniMax held its initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to become a listed company. Minimax's office headquarters are located at the Xinyan Mansion, Guiqing Road, Xuhui, Shanghai.

Products

Talkie MiniMax's first product was Glow which was launched in October 2022. The app allowed users to create virtual characters and then chat with them about various topics. Only four months after launch, the app had over 5 million users. Glow was later removed from Chinese app stores in 2023. Glow was relaunched under two new brands: Talkie, launched for international markets in June 2023, and Xing Ye (星野), introduced in September 2023 for the Chinese market. In July 2024, The Wall Street Journal reported that Talkie ranked among the most-downloaded free entertainment apps in the U.S. and had about 11 million monthly active users. Talkie produced AI-simulated conversations with people such as Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, Elon Musk and LeBron James.

Hailuo AI

In March 2024, MiniMax launched Hailuo AI, an AI text and music-generating large language model (LLM) platform. In September 2024, MiniMax launched video-01, a text-to-video model under Hailuo AI. In December 2024, Broadcast reported that Hailuo AI can reproduce the logos of British television channels Channel 4, Channel 5, and ITV in its AI-generated videos. On 20 January 2025, MiniMax launched audio functions for Hailuo AI.

Models On 17 April 2024, MiniMax launched the ABAB 6.5 series, a mixture of experts language model. In January 2025, MiniMax unveiled the MiniMax-01 LLM product line, which includes a general-purpose MiniMax-Text-01 model and MiniMax-VL-01 model with visual capabilities. In April 2025, MiniMax released Speech-02, a text-to-speech model with support for over 30 languages. In June 2025, MiniMax released MiniMax-M1. In February 2026, MiniMax released MiniMax-M2.5, and the M2.5-Lightning variant. In March 2026, MiniMax released MiniMax-M2.7 In June 2026, MiniMax released MiniMax-M3.

Legal issues In September 2025, Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery filed a copyright lawsuit in the United States alleging that Hailuo AI infringed their copyrighted characters and related works. In February 2026, Anthropic accused MiniMax and two other Chinese AI companies of using thousands of fraudulent accounts to generate more than 16 million interactions with Claude in order to improve their own large language models via distillation.

See also List of artificial intelligence companies Six AI tigers

References

External links Official website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with MiniMax Group

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what MiniMax Group claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to MiniMax Group before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about MiniMax Group ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of MiniMax Group

In research: MiniMax Group appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses MiniMax Group in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: MiniMax Group is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2021 establishments in Shanghai, 2021 in artificial intelligence, 2026 initial public offerings, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for MiniMax Group outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study MiniMax Group in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what MiniMax Group means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain MiniMax Group out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is MiniMax Group in simple terms?

MiniMax Group Inc. (Chinese: 稀宇科技; pinyin: Xīyǔ Kējì ) is an artificial intelligence (AI) company based in Shanghai, China.

Why does MiniMax Group matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study MiniMax Group?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on MiniMax Group.