MiniMax-VL-01 is an AI model developed by MiniMax (China), first published in January 2025. It works in the vision, language and multimodal domain, on tasks such as visual question answering, language modeling/generation and question answering.
Training it took an estimated 2.1×10²⁴ FLOP of compute (estimation method: operation counting). Training ran on NVIDIA H800 SXM5.
Access: Open weights (restricted use). Its weights are openly available. It is built on top of MiniMax-Text-01. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as likely.