Yunqi Capital | Let Ordinary People Use AI — Angel-Round Investee MiniMax Launches "Hailuo AI"

This week, the global large-model race has been heating up. While OpenAI and Google have been rolling out one major release after another, China's top LLM players have also been rushing to debut new products.

Beyond the "tech demos," how can large models truly find their way into ordinary people's lives? On May 15, Yunqi Capital portfolio company MiniMax officially launched Hailuo AI, a multimodal product built on the company's self-developed foundation model that supports text, voice, and image interactions — designed to become an everyday "life companion" that helps people simplify both work and daily life.

MiniMax is an AGI startup founded in late 2021. Its founder, Junjie Yan, once said in a media interview that "AGI isn't a doomsday weapon — it's a product ordinary people use every day." That conviction remains MiniMax's most deeply held principle.

Yunqi Capital, which has been focused on AI since its inception, first connected with the MiniMax team in early 2021. As the company's angel-round investor, Yunqi has accompanied MiniMax through milestone after milestone in multimodal model R&D and real-world deployment.

In this edition of Yunqi Capital, we explore how Hailuo AI, built on MiniMax's self-developed multimodal foundation model, aims to become an everyday "life companion" for ordinary people.

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Rational and logical, yet warm and empathetic

Hailuo AI is powered by MiniMax's self-developed multimodal foundation models, including the trillion-parameter MoE large language model abab6.5, a voice model, and an image model. These capabilities make it both intelligent and efficient: it supports context windows of up to 200k tokens and can process nearly 30,000 words of text in under a second. This allows it to better assist people with reading, analyzing, and writing long-form content such as books, lengthy reports, and academic papers.

Hailuo AI is also designed to be a warm, personable product — a companion that never lets a conversation die, patiently listens to your thoughts and worries, and picks up on and understands your emotions. You can even sense its personality and feelings through its verbal tics and tone. MiniMax firmly believes that a truly good product is one that lets users forget the complex technology behind it, so they can simply pick it up and use it, or just start talking.

You can log in directly at hailuoai.com, or search for "Hailuo AI" in the iOS and Android app stores. To make it as accessible as possible, Hailuo AI already supports multiple interaction modes: you can send messages in the text box, upload images and files (PDF, PPT, TXT, DOCX), or simply call Hailuo AI directly.

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Creative ways to use Hailuo AI

How the "life companion" comes online

Hailuo AI's first wave of users — ranging from students cramming for exams to Big Tech operators, from engineer types to retired aunties — have already discovered all kinds of creative use cases. As a reliable life companion, Hailuo AI is available 24/7 to help solve work and life problems, and hopes to accompany people through different stages of life's challenges!

Click images to see how other users are putting Hailuo AI to work

For more Hailuo AI use cases, click "Read More." You're also welcome to scan the QR code below to try it out now.