Minimax
Mentioned in 11 analyzed podcast episodes across 10 shows
A Chinese AI company developing open-weight models, particularly the M2 and M2.5 series optimized for coding and agentic tasks, positioning itself as a cost-effective alternative to closed American models like Claude. The company gained podcast attention both for its technical achievements in open-source model performance and its controversial use of API calls for model distillation from Anthropic, as well as speculation around potential IPO plans and expansion into video generation.
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Episode Mentions
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis · Mar 6, 2026
AI Is Officially Political
“Offering cloud-based OpenClaw versions within proprietary apps alongside Moonshot in Chinese agent platform competition”
Odd Lots · Feb 28, 2026
James van Geelen on His Viral AI Doom Scenario
“Chinese AI model cited as 90% cheaper alternative to Anthropic, illustrating pricing pressure and regulatory arbitrage”
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Feb 26, 2026
[LIVE] Anthropic Distillation & How Models Cheat (SWE-Bench Dead) | Nathan Lambert & Sebastian Raschka
“Chinese AI lab that used millions of API calls from Anthropic for model distillation”
PBD Podcast · Feb 25, 2026
Trump's State of the Union + Supreme Court Tariff Troubles | PBD #746
“Chinese AI lab accused by Anthropic of industrial-scale distillation attacks”
Daily Tech News Show · Feb 24, 2026
Citrini's Substack Post Sent the Market Into a Panic - DTNS 5212
“Chinese AI firm accused by Anthropic of conducting coordinated distillation attacks on Claude”
"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis · Feb 22, 2026
Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post
“Chinese AI company developing M2 series open-weight models for coding and agentic tasks”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Feb 18, 2026
OpenAI Acquires OpenClaw, 400x Cost Collapse, & Why India Wins the Talent War | EP #231
“Chinese open-weight model gaining momentum; free alternative to closed American models; used by startups for self-hosting”
AI For Humans: Making Artificial Intelligence Fun & Practical · Feb 13, 2026
Seedance 2.0 Is Peak AI Video. We Tested It. Send Help.
“Released M2.5 open-source model with state-of-the-art coding performance at $1/hour for 100 tokens per second”
What's Next｜科技早知道 · Dec 31, 2025
年终总结2: 与真格基金戴雨森聊模型发展、AI 商业化与美股 M7 展望 ｜硅谷徐老师 S9E43
“Chinese model company mentioned as preparing for IPO; represents competitive wave of Chinese AI model companies”
What's Next｜科技早知道 · Dec 24, 2025
年终总结1：中国大模型出海：开源模型是只赚吆喝不赚钱吗？| S9E42
“Chinese model company recently launching video models with growing community engagement”
张小珺Jùn｜商业访谈录 · Dec 21, 2025
126. 和红杉郑庆生聊：经济史的流量革命、人类行为模式的不可预期，与创始人性格
“AI product company invested by Sequoia; example of 2C AI application in current portfolio”