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MiniMax: The Company Behind Hailuo

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Hailuo AIVideo generation from text and images. The most cost effective option on the market.
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M2.5 Language ModelFrontier coding model. 80.2% on SWE Bench, MIT licensed, 1/20th the cost of Opus.
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MiniMax Audio300+ voices, voice cloning, multilingual TTS. Cheaper than ElevenLabs.
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TalkieCharacter AI platform with 17M+ downloads and $70M ARR.
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MiniMax Token PlanUnified token based pricing across all MiniMax products: video, language models, audio, and more.

Why the broader ecosystem matters for Hailuo users

MiniMax has raised over $1.5 billion through its IPO and venture funding, giving it substantial resources to continue improving Hailuo. The company has a large research team working across multiple model families and the financial runway to invest in video generation even while operating at a loss. The risk is that a Chinese AI company faces potential regulatory challenges in Western markets.