Ryan LeeHead of Developer Relations · MiniMaxResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
MiniMaxFounder, Chairman, CEO and CTO
Yan helped build MiniMax’s research program across language, video and speech AI, powering products such as Hailuo AI, which generates videos from text and images. He shaped the company’s adoption of mixture-of-experts and linear attention—model designs intended to make AI more computationally efficient.[1]
Research direction, adoption of MoE and linear attention (printed p279), Hailuo video generation (p264).
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