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MiniMax

China frontier lab famed for speech synthesis, long context, and Hailuo AI consumer platform.

9.3/ 10.0Editorial Rating
Editorial score based on public benchmarks and community feedback — not a third-party benchmark result

Compiled through 2026-09

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Vendor
MiniMax
Started
2021
China availability
Works in ChinaDirectly reachable from mainland China
Pricing tier
Free tier
Current flagship
MiniMax-Text-01 / Speech Large Model
Website
hailuoai.com

Evaluation, Pros & Cons

Editorial score based on public benchmarks and community feedback — not a third-party benchmark result

Key Advantages

  • World-class natural expressive TTS, voice cloning, and emotional speech nuance
  • MiniMax-Text-01 supports 4M token context with top-tier roleplay and creative writing

Limitations & Caveats

  • Complex code reasoning benchmarks are more generalized compared to dedicated coding LLMs

Overview

MiniMax was founded in 2021, pursuing proprietary text, audio, and video models. Hailuo AI is its consumer flagship, widely acclaimed for book-scale summarization, hyper-realistic voice cloning, and interactive chat. Its hybrid linear attention MoE architecture unlocks 4M-token contexts.

Direction

Pushing native multimodal real-time interaction, end-to-end voice agents, and gaming NPC/hardware APIs.

Version history

  1. Jan 2025

    Latest

    MiniMax-Text-01

    4M token linear-attention long-context model.

  2. Aug 2024

    Video & Expressive Voice

    Industry-leading expressive voice engine.

  3. Jan 2024

    ABAB 6 / Hailuo AI

    Hailuo AI consumer app launched.

  4. Mar 2023

    ABAB series models

    Early MoE architecture LLM.