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open source
2026-07-10
In the same letter: allocates 1% of shares to a fund supporting the open-source community.
«I'll set aside 1% of shares in a fund to keep supporting the open-source community.»
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other
2026-07-10
All-staff letter amid stock plunge: forgoing salary until AGI as a founder's long-term commitment.
«From today until the day we achieve AGI, I will no longer draw any salary from the company.»
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products
2026-01-09
At IPO: MiniMax uses its own model internally as an 'intern', including editing production code (~80% by AI).
«Internally we keep using our own model; we call it the 'intern' — an intern named AI.»
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china us
2025-12-10
On industry structure: neither one dominant firm nor a hundred schools, but a few coexisting on different trade-offs.
«AI won't be dominated by one firm nor a hundred schools; it converges to a few coexisting on different trade-offs.»
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products
2025-12-10
On the essence of the LLM business: the real product is the model itself; the traditional product is more a channel.
«In the LLM era, the real product is the model itself; the traditional product is more like a channel.»
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products
2025-12-10
On multimodality as the essence of AGI: true AGI is multimodal input and output.
«True AGI must have multimodal input and multimodal output.»
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open source
2025-12-10
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Shift on open source after DeepSeek R1: if choosing again, would open-source from day one.
«If I could choose again, we should have open-sourced from day one.»
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compute
2025-07-29 ~
On compute economics: in a year the inference cost of the best models fell by an order of magnitude.
«In the past year, the inference cost of the best models has dropped by an order of magnitude.»
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open source
2025-07-26
At WAIC: AGI should belong to the AI company and its users, not to a single company alone.
«It should belong to the AI company and its users, not just to a single company.»
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agi timeline
2025-07-26
WAIC speech: conviction that AGI will certainly be achieved and will serve the public.
«AGI will definitely be achieved, and it will serve the public.»
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products
2024-10-23
On the business model: a strong-tech firm should be a technology-driven product company, not a technology seller.
«A strong-tech company shouldn't sell technology, but be a 'technology-driven product' company.»
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compute
2024-06-19
On choosing MoE for compute efficiency: a dense model couldn't produce this many tokens daily.
«With a dense model, we couldn't produce this many tokens every day.»
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other
2024-06-19
AGI as the only path: not a choice, but the only road one can conceive of.
«It's not a choice, but the only road you can conceive of.»
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china us
2024-06-19
On China's AGI ambition: at minimum the number two should be a Chinese company.
«At the very least, the number two should be a Chinese company.»
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other
2024-04-17
Frames AGI not as a weapon but as a product ordinary people use every day.
«AGI isn't a superweapon; it's a product ordinary people use every day.»
