--- title: "MiniMax — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/minimax as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # MiniMax (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › MiniMax MiniMax is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 2 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 1 point lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources. - **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources - **Hype score:** 1.8 / 100 · −0.3 in 1 day · −0.9 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 11 on Sep 7, 2026 - **Category:** 🧠 Models - **Official site:** [minimax.io](https://minimax.io) - **Sources above normal:** 0 of 24 scoring it (0 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 107 - **Share of voice:** 0.2% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 5 | 1 | 3× | no | 70% | | Reddit | posts | 6 | 4 | 1.4× | no | 30% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hacker News | mentions | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [Trump as a Mexican Abuelita](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wp7imz/) — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Sep 24 · score 4,379 · 218 comments 2. [Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803085) — Hacker News (minimaxir.com) · Sep 22 · score 116 · 65 comments 3. [MiniMax-H3-Character-Swap-LoRA](https://huggingface.co/akatz-ai/MiniMax-H3-Character-Swap-LoRA) — Hugging Face Hub (trending + orgs) (akatz-ai) · Sep 25 · score 115 4. [qt7ur16hre/minimaxm3-minimax-m3-api: minimax-m3 API \(minimaxm3 / minimax m3\): input $0.24; output $0.96. Model id, llm settings, curl and Python examples over an OpenAI-compatible gateway, $1 minimum top-up.](https://github.com/qt7ur16hre/minimaxm3-minimax-m3-api) — GitHub (qt7ur16hre) · Sep 24 · score 42 5. [I connected a fruit fly connectome to tic-tac-toe \(with a minimax safety net\)](https://dev.to/asyncinnovator/i-connected-a-fruit-fly-connectome-to-tic-tac-toe-with-a-minimax-safety-net-5bc0) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#python) · Sep 28 · score 12 · 4 comments 6. [Shares of Chinese AI Model Firms Fall After Report of Regulatory Probe](https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/shares-chinese-ai-model-firms-fall-report-regulatory-probe) — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 23 7. [Intelligence in the Open: Recursive Self-Improvement](https://partiful.com/e/DKY1zYjyuOvMf5RGzjAJ) — Cerebral Valley (AI events) (San Francisco, CA) 8. [Trump as an Indian Street Vendor](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wo4bgr/) — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Sep 23 · score 3,649 · 162 comments 9. [Just bought a second 3090 but now I don't see the benefits right now.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wqv0qj/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 26 · score 25 · 134 comments 10. [Introducing KoboldCpp Agent \(and a plea for help\)](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wqlyp8/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 26 · score 159 · 32 comments 11. [lshhhhhhh/ai-school-op: AI 校园版《败犬女主太多了！》OP 制作过程：分镜、MiniMax H3 逐镜人物替换、拼接、超分；18 位 AI 娘人设与完整演员表](https://github.com/lshhhhhhh/ai-school-op) — GitHub (lshhhhhhh) · Sep 25 · score 24 12. [I may have a small AI tools addiction. All the desktop tools I have installed on my Mac right now \(in alphabetical order\) #Augure #ChatGPT #Claude #CherryStudio #Cursor #Freebuff #HermesAgent Desktop…](https://mstdn.plus/@scross01/117348993210602696) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mstdn.plus) · Sep 28 · score 1 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 76 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 61% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 25% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 13% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 13% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 13% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 6.6% of its stories ## Related topics - **Mentioned with:** [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md) (32 stories), [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md) (27 stories), [Kimi](https://abovethefog.app/topics/kimi.md) (22 stories), [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md) (18 stories), [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) (11 stories), [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md) (5 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 1.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 26, 2026 | 2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 24, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 23, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 22, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 21, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 2.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 2.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 2.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 2.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 3.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 10.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 3.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 11 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 1.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 9.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 10.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 1.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open MiniMax in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=minimax) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/minimax) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)