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Chinese AGI company building multimodal LLMs, Hailuo video, speech and music models, plus AI apps and open APIs.
Unified API and gateway routing requests across 200+ models from 40+ providers, with cost tracking and a free BYOK tier.
AI research lab building multimodal 'omni' foundation models and infrastructure aimed at robotics and physical-world applications.
A Japanese AI firm that grew from shogi-AI research into industry ML solutions and a generative-AI platform, HEROZ ASK.
Open-source desktop app for running AI chat models locally or via APIs, as a private ChatGPT alternative.
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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
- ✦One API for 200+ models across 40+ providers
- ✦Provider switching without code changes
- ✦Real-time cost tracking
- ✦Bring-your-own-keys, free forever
- ✦Observability and guardrails
- ✦SOC 2 Type II certified
- ✦Omni multimodal model research and development
- ✦Real-time inference API (Infer) for enterprise use
- ✦Video tagging, search, and clipping infrastructure
- ✦Training data generation from egocentric and robotics footage
- ✦Deep-learning and machine-learning core technology
- ✦HEROZ ASK generative-AI platform
- ✦BtoB and BtoC AI solutions
- ✦BLOOMWORKS product
- ✦Industry AI deployment case studies
- ✦Run open-source LLMs locally
- ✦Connect to online models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- ✦Private, offline-capable AI chat
- ✦Open source and self-hostable
- ✦Model library via Hugging Face
- ✦Cross-platform desktop app
- →Coding and agentic tasks
- →AI video generation
- →Text-to-speech and music creation
- →Building on MiniMax model APIs
- →Route across many LLM providers from one API
- →Track and control AI spend
- →Avoid vendor lock-in with provider switching
- →Powering robotics perception with multimodal AI
- →Running large-scale video search and analysis via API
- →Sourcing specialized training data for frontier AI models
- →Deploying generative AI in enterprises
- →Applying ML to industry-specific problems
- →AI-driven business transformation (DX)
- →Private local AI chat
- →Using multiple models in one app
- →Avoiding cloud data sharing
- →Experimenting with open models