{"id":1031335,"date":"2026-08-27T07:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031335"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:21:15","slug":"chinas-minimax-sees-revenue-nearly-quadruple-in-first-half-as-ai-demand-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/chinas-minimax-sees-revenue-nearly-quadruple-in-first-half-as-ai-demand-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s MiniMax sees revenue nearly quadruple in first half as AI demand surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI startup MiniMax on Wednesday posted a nearly four-fold jump in first-half revenue as demand for its low-cost models and AI platform accelerated, with the company continuing to target cheaper ways to deploy AI at scale. <\/p>\n<p>Revenue for the six months ended \u200cJune 30 \u2060rose \u2060283.1% from a year earlier to $116.6 million, reflecting surging demand for cheaper, \u200bopen-source-based models from Chinese providers such as MiniMax and DeepSeek, which position \u200bthemselves as lower-cost alternatives to proprietary U.S. systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese AI startup MiniMax on Wednesday posted a nearly four-fold jump in first-half revenue as demand for its low-cost models and AI platform accelerated, with the company continuing to target cheaper ways to deploy AI at scale. Revenue for the six months ended \u200cJune 30 \u2060rose \u2060283.1% from a year earlier to $116.6 million, reflecting surging demand for cheaper, \u200bopen-source-based models from Chinese providers such as MiniMax and DeepSeek, which position \u200bthemselves as lower-cost alternatives to proprietary U.S. systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031360,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031335\/revisions\/1031360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}