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MiniMax
MiniMax signals how quickly a newer lab can join the frontier conversation with its own model family and public presence.
Roster
Jifeng Dai
DeepSeek / MiniMax
Researcher focused on computer vision, multimodal learning, and generative AI. His public homepage says he is currently with Stepfun, after serving as a principal scientist at SenseTime Research and a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, and that he earned a PhD in computer science from Tsinghua University.
Chunlin Li
MiniMax
Chunlin Li is a research scientist at MiniMax.
Yuxiang Zheng
MiniMax
Research scientist at MiniMax focused on reasoning, efficient large language models, reinforcement learning, and multimodal understanding and generation.
Jingren Zhou
Moonshot AI / Alibaba Qwen
Alibaba senior technology leader and researcher associated with Qwen. Public profiles list him with Alibaba Group, and official Alibaba Cloud coverage identifies him as a chief technology officer leading large-model work.
Binyuan Hui
DeepSeek / Alibaba Qwen
AI researcher whose public work includes large language models, vision-language models, and multimodal systems. His public profile notes prior work as a senior algorithm expert at Alibaba and co-authorship of Qwen technical reports.
Yu Liu
ByteDance Seed / MiniMax
Yu Liu is publicly listed as a co-author on the 2025 Seed1.5-VL, MiniMax-01, and MiniMax-M1 technical reports.
Jie Zhou
DeepSeek / Moonshot AI
Jie Zhou is a Moonshot AI contributor and co-author of Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs.
Zeyu Wang
ByteDance Seed / MiniMax
Public sources list Zeyu Wang as an author of ByteDance Seed's Seed1.5-VL Technical Report and the Seed publication "Emerging Properties in Unified Multimodal Pretraining" (BAGEL), and as a coauthor of the MiniMax-M1 technical report.
Jinyuan Jia
MiniMax
Researcher working on speech and multimodal language models, including MiniMax-Speech and related speech understanding work.
Ming Ding
MiniMax
Lead of foundation models at MiniMax working on large language models, multimodal pretraining, and efficient training systems. He completed a PhD in computer science at Tsinghua University.
Qingyang Ge
MiniMax
Research scientist at MiniMax AI Research interested in large language models, machine learning, and computer vision. He earned a PhD from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and previously worked at Alibaba DAMO Academy on vision-language reasoning and video understanding.
Wenchao Zhou
MiniMax
Research scientist at MiniMax AI Research focused on large language models, machine learning, and recommendation systems. He received a PhD from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and previously worked at Alibaba DAMO Academy on machine learning and distributed databases.
Yusheng Zhao
MiniMax
Research scientist at MiniMax AI Research focused on reinforcement learning, reasoning, multimodal learning, large language models, and large-scale distributed systems. He received a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dawei Feng
MiniMax
Co-founder and research scientist at MiniMax AI Research. He received a PhD from Tsinghua University and works on foundation models, reinforcement learning, and data systems, with publications at major machine learning and NLP venues.
Shang Yang
DeepSeek / MiniMax
Researcher focused on reinforcement learning, large language model reasoning, and multimodal foundation models; coauthor of Janus-Pro and MiniMax-M1.
Wenbo Bi
MiniMax
Research scientist at MiniMax AI Research whose interests include large language models, machine learning, and code intelligence. He earned a PhD from Nanyang Technological University and previously worked on code intelligence, search, and recommender systems at Alibaba DAMO Academy.
Xiang Li
MiniMax
Research scientist at MiniMax AI Research with interests in large language models, machine learning, and data intelligence. He earned a PhD from Nanyang Technological University and previously worked at Alibaba DAMO Academy on data intelligence and large language model applications.
Jiahan Xu
MiniMax
Researcher working on efficient large language models and reasoning systems, including MiniMax-M1.
Weiran Huang
MiniMax
Researcher focused on reinforcement learning and multimodal foundation models; arXiv author results include the MiniMax-M1 paper.
Xianxin Lin
MiniMax
Research scientist at MiniMax AI Research focused on large language models, reinforcement learning, and AI for science. He received a PhD from Peking University and has published at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, and IJCAI.
Yefeng Zheng
MiniMax
Research scientist at MiniMax AI Research focused on AI for science, large language models, and deep generative models. He received a PhD from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Rice University.
Zhihao Wu
MiniMax
Research scientist at MiniMax AI Research focused on multimodal large language models, AI agents, and reasoning. He previously worked on multimodal understanding and generation and holds a master's degree from Tsinghua University.