Agora Deepens Strategic Collaboration with MiniMax
Written by Emily J. Thompson, Senior Investment Analyst
Updated: Jan 20 2026
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Agora (API) announced the deepening of its strategic collaboration with MiniMax following MiniMax's recent IPO. The partnership brings together MiniMax's text-to-speech and multimodal foundation models with Agora's Conversational AI Engine and global, ultra-low-latency real-time delivery network, enabling developers and enterprises worldwide to deploy conversational AI that feels truly alive, responsive, and human.
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Agora Inc. is a holding company of two independent divisions, under the Agora brand and Shengwang brand, whose businesses are conducted through separate entities. Agora provides Real-Time Engagement Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that operates in the United States, as well as other international markets outside the United States and China. Shengwang provides Real-Time Engagement PaaS in the China market. The Company provides developers with customizable and compatible application programming interfaces (APIs), to embed real-time voice, video, interactive live-streaming, chat, whiteboard, and artificial intelligence capabilities into their applications without the need to develop the technology or build the underlying infrastructure themselves. The real-time data transmission is handled by the Company’s Software-Defined Real-Time Network (SD-RTN), which is a virtual network overlay on top of the public Internet.
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Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
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