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Yan Junjie

Founder, MiniMax

Known asChinese businessman (born 1989)
RolesFounder, MiniMax
EducationSoutheast University, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
LinksWikipedia · minimax.io

About Yan Junjie

Yan Junjie is the founder of MiniMax.

MiniMax: Text, speech and video models (MiniMax-M, Hailuo).

Yan studied at Southeast University and Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Today MiniMax ranks #70 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 12 papers in the last year and 11 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Yan is part of that story.

Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Yan, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.

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