MiniMax raises three-year Alibaba Cloud spending commitment to US$1.2 billion

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Shanghai-based AI firm MiniMax increased its three-year purchase ceiling for Alibaba Cloud services to US$1.2 billion, representing a 220 percent rise from previous agreements. The revision followed MiniMax’s consumption of two-thirds of its US$300 million budget for the current year by the end of June. In addition to cloud infrastructure, the company increased its three-year API service budget ceiling to US$62.5 million, a nearly 20-fold increase from its prior limit. This expansion was driven by the company's growing need for computing power to support model training and live inference for its M-series large language models and H3 video-generation model.

Consequences

MiniMax will likely accelerate its development and deployment of AI models given the significant increase in dedicated compute and API resources through 2028. The surge in spending highlights a broader trend of escalating infrastructure costs for China's top AI developers as they scale their enterprise and consumer offerings.

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