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4 developments involving MiniMax in 1 country or body. The most recent is DeepSeek and MiniMax register under China’s new AI export rules, state media says, 22 Oct 2026.

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  1. StatementFrontierChina
    DeepSeek and MiniMax register under China’s new AI export rules, state media says

    The first registrations under the interim regime went through within a week, and Beijing’s message to its labs is that open-weight releases and overseas services continue.

    Also on How US AI-chip export rules changed

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 23 Oct 2026)

  2. Model releaseFrontierChina
    MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash, an open-weights model for agents, coding and cybersecurity

    A Chinese lab has put weights for a model it markets on cybersecurity performance in anyone’s hands, as US labs gate their most cyber-capable models.

    Also on Frontier AI and cyber attacks

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 24 Oct 2026)

  3. ReportFrontierChina
    Only 3.6% of 857 Chinese model releases ever got a published safety result

    Chinese labs publish open weights anyone can run, and this counts how rarely any safety result is published alongside them.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  4. Model releaseFrontierChina
    MiniMax releases M3, a 1-million-token multimodal model for coding agents

    Long-context coding agents got cheaper to run on MiniMax’s model, by the company’s own figures.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)