“ChinAI #336: MiniMax as China’s OpenAI?” by Jeffrey Ding

Hopes and delusions about China's Little AI Dragons.

Featured links

• Who will come and challenge OpenAI?
• ChinAI #313
• ChinAI #264
• 663B tokens from MiniMax
• Emergency Response Measures for Catastrophic AI Risk
• Frontier AI Risk Management Framework in Practice: A Risk Analysis Technical Report
• President for Life
• Tarbell Fellowship

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These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University.

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First published:
November 17th, 2025

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-336-minimax-as-chinas-openai

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