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Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s best
Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based AI companies. This week,
As for MiniMax-VL-01, MiniMax says that it rivals Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet on evaluations that require multimodal understanding, like ChartQA, which tasks models with answering graph- and diagram-related queries (e.g. “What is the peak value of the orange line in this graph?”). The company’s projects include apps like Talkie, an AI-powered role-playing platform along the lines of Character AI, and text-to-video models that MiniMax has released in Hailuo. MiniMax’s new models arrive days after the outgoing Biden Administration proposed harsher export rules and restrictions on AI technologies for Chinese ventures.
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