MiniMax

MiniMax integrated DeepSeek R1 into the overseas web version of MiniMax Chat, indicating that DeepSeek provides model capabilities to a MiniMax product.

AgiBot has partnered with MiniMax, which provides AgiBot with end-to-end text-to-speech AI technology to improve voice interactions for its robots.

MiniMax and ByteDance's Doubao compete in the consumer-facing AI application market. The excerpt explicitly states that MiniMax's consumer products face competitive pressure from Doubao and other products with massive traffic reach.

MiniMax and Baidu's Ernie (Wenxin) are both leading Chinese foundation model providers, competing directly in the LLM/multimodal model, API and enterprise platform market, and are routinely benchmarked side by side.

MiniMax and 01.AI are both identified as members of China's “6+2” competitive landscape for AI foundation-model startups, making them competitors in the same market.

MiniMax and StepFun are both members of China's so-called six leading large-model startups and compete in the AI foundation-model market. MiniMax focuses on overseas consumer scenarios such as video generation, while StepFun emphasizes multimodal models and on-device agents.

36Kr explicitly identifies MiniMax as a competitor while discussing Moonshot AI's API and coding business, indicating that the two companies compete in foundation models and coding-related products.

MiniMax and Zhipu AI both compete in China’s foundation-model market. The excerpt notes that they currently emphasize To-C and To-B paths respectively, but their long-term strategies may converge.

MiniMax and Kunlun compete in LLMs and AI apps

Both are independent Chinese large-model developers and are repeatedly compared side by side in coverage: reports note that ModelBest's shareholder base is dominated by state and industrial capital, unlike peers such as Zhipu and MiniMax that received backing from internet giants, and that ModelBest is pursuing a STAR Market IPO after Zhipu and MiniMax listed in Hong Kong, placing them in the same large-model market.

Shengshu's Vidu competes with MiniMax in AI video generation.