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The Misfit's Playbook: How MiniMax Challenges Big AI's Burn Rate with Efficiency

・ Technology #AI #MiniMax #AGI #Efficiency #Startups

MiniMax, China's AI outlier, reveals a path less traveled: achieving global multi-modal leadership with a fraction of the capital and a fraction of the spend of its peers.

The Misfit’s Playbook: How MiniMax Challenges Big AI’s Burn Rate with Efficiency On China’s crowded large language model chessboard, MiniMax has always been the difficult-to-categorize “misfit.” While its peers raise tens of billions, engage in compute arms races, and spend lavishly on user acquisition, MiniMax’s recent filings dropped a figure that silenced the industry: since its 2022 founding, it has spent a total of approximately $500 million. What does $500 million mean?

AI Era Business Moats: Why Speed and Process Power Trump Traditional Advantages

・ Technology #Business Strategy #Moat #AI #Startups

Discover how business moats are evolving in the AI era, where velocity and operational excellence create stronger barriers than traditional competitive advantages.

AI Era Business Moats: Why Speed and Process Power Trump Traditional Advantages Many entrepreneurs fall into the trap of believing they need to build defensive moats before even starting their ventures. This is a fundamental misunderstanding—moats aren’t prerequisites for starting, but rather emerge as natural byproducts of scaling from 1 to billions of users. The obsession with “not seeing a moat” often prevents promising ideas from ever launching, mistakenly bringing late-stage concerns to the earliest phases.