MiniMax, for example, saw its Talkie app surpass ten million downloads in its first eight months last year, making it the fourth most downloaded AI-integrated app in the US, ahead of Character.AI.

A public feud over model originality threatens China’s collaborative AI front, with Huawei denying whistleblower claims of ...

DeepSeek rival MiniMax says its first AI reasoning model halves compute of R1 The Shanghai-based firm said its open-source M1 model is more efficient in tasks including maths and coding than the ...

OpenAI has reportedly revamped its security operations to safeguard against corporate espionage, following allegations against Chinese startup DeepSeek of improper model copying.