Agora, a global leader in real-time engagement infrastructure and conversational AI, has strengthened its strategic partnership with MiniMax following MiniMax's recent IPO. The collaboration integrates MiniMax's advanced text-to-speech (TTS) and multimodal foundation models with Agora's Conversational AI Engine and ultra-low-latency global network, enabling developers and enterprises to deploy highly natural, responsive, and scalable voice-first AI experiences worldwide.
While generative AI models continue to advance rapidly, delivering high-quality outputs in real-time conversations remains a critical challenge—especially across unpredictable networks, diverse devices, and global audiences. MiniMax brings frontier-level TTS capable of natural prosody, emotional nuance, and multilingual support. Agora complements this with its specialized real-time audio pipeline, enabling voices to be streamed, interrupted, resumed, and adapted instantly in live interactions.
The combined offering eliminates the need for developers to integrate disparate components (models, playback engines, networking layers), providing an end-to-end foundation for production-grade conversational AI that feels truly alive and responsive.
"Conversational AI becomes truly powerful only when intelligence meets immediacy," said Tony Wang, CRO & Co-founder of Agora. "MiniMax brings world-class voice generation. Agora ensures that voice arrives instantly, naturally, and reliably—anywhere in the world. Together, we're helping developers move from demos to real, scalable products."
"MiniMax has always focused on building AI that people want to interact with," said Linda Sheng, Global Business VP at MiniMax. "Partnering with Agora allows our models to perform at their best in real-time environments, unlocking global use cases that demand both expressive AI and uncompromising delivery."
MiniMax's models are designed with global ambition, trained for multicultural and multilingual scenarios from inception. Agora contributes its proven global network—spanning 200+ countries and regions—with engineering optimized for low latency, reliability, and scale. This synergy addresses a key ecosystem gap: ensuring expressive, high-fidelity AI voices perform consistently regardless of user location or network conditions.
The partnership already supports production deployments in AI companions, real-time customer service agents, interactive education/content platforms, and multimodal applications requiring synchronized voice, vision, emotion, and action.
With MiniMax's IPO providing additional momentum, the companies plan to deepen collaboration across real-time voice agents, AI-native devices, and multimodal conversational experiences. This positions developers and enterprises to bring intelligent, dynamic AI interactions into everyday moments at global scale.
About Agora Agora is the global leader in real-time engagement, providing developers with simple, flexible, and powerful APIs to embed real-time conversational AI, voice, video, interactive live streaming, and chat into their applications and IoT devices. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Agora is trusted by over 1,800 leading organizations across the globe to power best-in-class real-time experiences from social media and live shopping to education and telehealth.
About MiniMax
MiniMax is a global AI foundation model company. Founded in early 2022, we are committed to advancing the frontiers of AI towards AGI via our mission Intelligence with Everyone. Our proprietary multimodal models, led by MiniMax M2, Hailuo 2.3, Speech 2.6 and Music 2.0, have advanced coding capability and high agentic performance, as well as ultra-long context processing capability, and can understand, generate, and integrate a wide range of modalities, including text, audio, images, video, and music. These models power our major AI-native products — including MiniMax Agent, Hailuo AI, MiniMax Audio, Talkie, and our enterprise and developer-facing Open API Platform, which collectively deliver intelligent, dynamic experiences to enhance productivity and quality of life for users worldwide.
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