@ComfyUI is now the first and only commercial license distributor for @MiniMax_AI's generative media models. MiniMax open weights have been downloaded through Comfy close to 20 million times. Not one of those downloads paid the lab a cent. That is the open-weight problem. Training frontier models is expensive. Adoption is not revenue. If open models are going to keep pace with the biggest closed labs, the labs need a way to get paid. So we built the bridge. Enterprises, studios, and agencies license through us. The labs get incentive to keep researching. Independent creators keep building exactly as they do now, funded by the organizations with budgets. A license only gets you the model. Our Forward Deployed Creatives embed with your team, train LoRAs on your style, build production workflows in your environment, and leave your people able to run and extend all of it. What they build is yours to keep. MiniMax is where we start, not where we stop. My assertion is that open-weight labs that survive the next two years will not be the ones with the best benchmarks. They will be the ones that solve distribution to paying customers first. Try for Free | Request a License today ⬇️