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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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- 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.
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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.