Minimax
A Chinese AI company that has released strong frontier open-weight models as part of the growing Chinese AI ecosystem.
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Anthropic's AI writing assistant
Ankit says MiniMax is really cheap and pretty good for tasks where you don't need a top frontier model like Claude.
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Ankit says MiniMax is really cheap and pretty good for tasks where you don't need a top frontier model like Claude.
"I've been playing around with the MiniMax models and a bunch of others and they're pretty good. They're really cheap and they're pretty good."
Presented as a lower-cost alternative to frontier models like Claude; useful for tasks where being at the very frontier is not necessary
What creators say
"It generates all the video using the MiniMax model via file."
More from Anish Acharya →"MiniMax is just mindbendingly good. Five to ten times less the cost. It needs a good harness though."
More from Farbood Nivi →"I've been playing around with the MiniMax models and a bunch of others and they're pretty good. They're really cheap and they're pretty good."
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"MiniMax is good at like quick task finding things on the internet. So I have like MiniMax researching things online 24/7 365."
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"Yeah, for some of the MiniMax, some of the AI companies that..."
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"This is like when you see the latest MiniMax H3 model. They've got 2K video faster than real-time generation now."
More from Emad Mostaque →"Starting from even MiniMax — when they were releasing their M2.7 model, they had a term specifically focusing on usage."
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"just to give you a little bit of an example minimax and moonshot these are two Chinese AI models their cost per million output tokens is about $2 US to $3 US"
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"This Miniax, is open. Anybody could go and download it, and they could adjust the weights on it"
More from Chris Koerner →"The likes of Z.ai with their GLM models, Minimax's models, Kimi Moonshot, especially in the last few months, has shown more brightly."
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