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MiniMax Alibaba Cloud Spend

MiniMax spent $75.88M on Alibaba Cloud in 2025 – up 7x from 2024. Its cap under the Alibaba Cloud Services agreement rises to $135M in 2028.

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Z.ai

Z.ai In Tokens

In April 2026, Z.ai models on OpenRouter processed 5.38 trillion tokens. Z.ai tokens processed increased 75.77% month-over-month.

12 May, 2026

Ravinder Deol

Z.ai

From $8M To $104M

Z.ai generated $103.6M (USD) in revenue in 2025 – up 12x since 2022. Research & Development spend hit $454.8M in 2025, or 439% of revenue.

11 May, 2026

Ravinder Deol

MiniMax

MiniMax Alibaba Cloud Spend

MiniMax spent $75.88M on Alibaba Cloud in 2025 – up 7x from 2024. Its cap under the Alibaba Cloud Services agreement rises to $135M in 2028.

8 May, 2026

Ravinder Deol

MiniMax

MiniMax 7-Day MA Ranked

In April 2026, among the AI Tigers, MiniMax models had a 170B seven-day moving average in tokens processed. It's decreased 26% month-over-month.

7 May, 2026

Ravinder Deol