MiniMax Yan Junjie: The key to success or failure of enterprises in the AI era lies in the speed of improvement of intelligent capabilities.

The Global Investment Promotion Conference in Shanghai in March 14, 2026. MiniMax founder and CEO Yan Junjie said at the opening ceremony that in the AI era, the ultimate determinant of success is not just burning money and resources, but the speed of advancement in intelligence, and this speed comes from research and development efficiency. The company places extreme importance on iteration speed in all stages of research and development, such as optimizing algorithms, experimental design, number of experiment iterations, and decision analysis mechanisms, fully utilizing the agile organizational form of a startup, combining top-down and bottom-up approaches.