# Zhou Yucong

> Zhou Yucong is co-founder, executive director and visual model research leader of MiniMax. MiniMax API, MiniMax Code, MiniMax-M2.5, MiniMax-M2.7, MiniMax-M3.1-Flash, MiniMax Video API and MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder, executive director and visual model research leader, MiniMax.

Zhou Yucong co-founded MiniMax, where he is an executive director and leads research and engineering on its visual models. He joined in March 2022 after algorithm work at SenseTime and Huawei, and studied mathematics and computer science at Beihang University.

## What Zhou builds

- [MiniMax API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-api.md), graded C, 55.3/100, in Model APIs & inference. MiniMax's API for its M-series text models, M3.1 Flash and M3, in the Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions and OpenAI Responses formats, with 1M-token context and automatic prompt caching. Co-founder, executive director and visual model research leader, MiniMax, researched 2026-10-28.
- [MiniMax Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-code.md), graded B, 67.7/100, in Agent harnesses. MiniMax's coding agent, as an open-source terminal CLI (`mcode`) and a closed desktop app. The CLI runs MiniMax models through M Plan or an API key, or any compatible model, headless with `mcode exec` or as an ACP server. Co-founder, executive director and visual model research leader, MiniMax, researched 2026-10-28.
- [MiniMax-M2.5](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-5.md), graded C, 57.5/100, in Open-weight models. MiniMax-M2.5 is MiniMax's open-weight mixture-of-experts model for coding and agent work, about 229B parameters in FP8 with a 196,608-token context and thinking always on, published on Hugging Face on 12 February 2026. Co-founder, executive director and visual model research leader, MiniMax, researched 2026-10-28.
- [MiniMax-M2.7](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m2-7.md), graded C, 56.1/100, in Open-weight models. MiniMax-M2.7 is MiniMax's open-weight mixture-of-experts model for coding, agent harnesses and office work, about 229B parameters in FP8 with thinking always on, published on Hugging Face on 9 April 2026 under a non-commercial licence. Co-founder, executive director and visual model research leader, MiniMax, researched 2026-10-28.
- [MiniMax-M3.1-Flash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-m3-1-flash.md), graded D, 50.5/100, in Open-weight models. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is MiniMax's open-weight mixture-of-experts model for coding, agent work, computer use and cybersecurity, about 428B parameters with 23B active, taking text, images and video with up to 1M tokens of context. Co-founder, executive director and visual model research leader, MiniMax, researched 2026-10-28.
- [MiniMax Video API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-video.md), graded C, 61.1/100, in Video generation. MiniMax's API for generating video. Co-founder, executive director and visual model research leader, MiniMax, researched 2026-10-28.
- [MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minimax-voice-cloning.md), graded D, 53.2/100, in Voice cloning & custom voices. MiniMax's API clones a voice from a 10 second to 5 minute audio sample and designs voices from a text description. The resulting voice IDs work with its speech-2.8 text-to-speech models. Co-founder, executive director and visual model research leader, MiniMax, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Xunhao Lai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/xunhao-lai/), First author of MiniMax Sparse Attention
- [Yan Junjie](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yan-junjie/), Founder, chairman, CEO and CTO, MiniMax
- [Yeyi Yun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yeyi-yun/), Co-founder, executive director and COO, MiniMax
- [Zhao Pengyu](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/zhao-pengyu/), Executive director and large language model research leader, MiniMax

## Questions

### Who is Zhou Yucong?

Zhou Yucong co-founded MiniMax, where he is an executive director and leads research and engineering on its visual models. He joined in March 2022 after algorithm work at SenseTime and Huawei, and studied mathematics and computer science at Beihang University.

### What does MiniMax make?

Anchor Terminal lists MiniMax API, MiniMax Code, MiniMax-M2.5, MiniMax-M2.7, MiniMax-M3.1-Flash, MiniMax Video API and MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design from MiniMax. MiniMax's API for its M-series text models, M3.1 Flash and M3, in the Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions and OpenAI Responses formats, with 1M-token context and automatic prompt caching.

### How are Zhou's tools graded?

MiniMax API is graded C, 55.3 out of 100; MiniMax Code is graded B, 67.7 out of 100; MiniMax-M2.5 is graded C, 57.5 out of 100; MiniMax-M2.7 is graded C, 56.1 out of 100; MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is graded D, 50.5 out of 100; MiniMax Video API is graded C, 61.1 out of 100; MiniMax Voice Clone and Voice Design is graded D, 53.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://cn.linkedin.com/in/yeyi-yun-ba051b220
- https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-announces-first-half-2026-financial-results-1787744160
- https://www.minimax.io
- https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/welcome
- https://www.minimax.io/about
- https://agent.minimax.io/docs/code/help/feedback
- https://platform.minimax.io/docs/faq/contact-us
- https://agent.minimax.io/docs/miniapp/overview
- https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-code-mini-app-1792650729
- https://agent.minimax.io/doc/en/privacy-policy.html
- https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13392
- https://xunhaolai.github.io/

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