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Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.
A paid gateway to premium OpenAI models with free daily credits, positioned as a ChatGPT Pro alternative.
Native macOS app that unifies 300+ AI models in one private workspace with agents, MCP tools, and one-time licensing.
Agentic AI platform with a coding desktop app, CLI, and cloud agents for autonomous software development and office work.
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- ✦MiniMax M-series LLMs (M3, 1M context, MSA)
- ✦Hailuo AI video generation
- ✦Speech and music generation models
- ✦MiniMax Code agentic coding tool
- ✦Consumer apps (Hailuo, Xingye)
- ✦Open API and Token Plan for developers
- ✦Conversational writing and editing
- ✦Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
- ✦Data analysis and visualization
- ✦Web search plus memory across chats
- ✦Connectors and remote MCP integrations
- ✦Extended thinking for complex tasks
- ✦Access to premium OpenAI models
- ✦Daily free credits
- ✦Subscription and pay-as-you-go options
- ✦Model picker for thinking/pro models
- ✦Invite-based bonus credits
- ✦Switch across 300+ hosted and local AI models
- ✦Native macOS app with global shortcut and screenshot-to-answer
- ✦Reusable agents, projects, and forked chats
- ✦Multimodal analysis of PDFs, images, and code
- ✦MCP tools and code execution
- ✦Local chat storage with encryptable API keys
- ✦Multi-agent collaboration for end-to-end tasks
- ✦Persistent memory and custom rules
- ✦Extensible skills and plugins
- ✦Rich context across code, images, and directories
- ✦Automatic codebase documentation generation
- ✦Terminal-native CLI and JetBrains IDE plugin
- ✦Cloud-hosted agents for enterprise use
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Drafting and refining written content
- →Building and debugging software
- →Analyzing datasets for insights
- →Research and learning support
- →Team and enterprise automation
- →Use OpenAI Pro-tier models affordably
- →Solve complex reasoning problems
- →Occasional AI use on free daily credits
- →Using multiple AI providers in one place
- →Explaining or fixing on-screen content instantly
- →Building reusable task-specific agents
- →Analyzing documents and screenshots privately
- →Autonomous feature development in large codebases
- →Terminal-based AI pair programming
- →Cross-department task automation for legal, finance, HR
- →Onboarding developers to unfamiliar codebases