MiniMax desktop client — voice and video included.
Use MiniMax M2 for text, abab for chat, and Hailuo for video and speech — all in one Floatboat canvas. No API key, no VPN, no Chinese phone number, and no juggling between consumer apps just to mix modalities.
Floatboat workspace
Good evening, Frank
Ask MiniMax-M2 anything — runs through Floatboat, no API key, no VPN.
Ask MiniMax-M2 for text, voice, or video in one canvas…
Mock picker — the real desktop app shows the same selector with live availability. Local-first: your prompts stay on your machine.
Text, voice, video — every MiniMax model, one canvas.
Pick the best-fit model for the job, and switch any time without re-wiring keys or projects.
MiniMax-M2
FlagshipAgent-grade reasoning model — strong on tool-use, planning, and long-context Chinese + English work.
- Context
- 200K
- Best at
- Agentic workflows
- Mode
- Tool-use ready
Speech-02
VoiceCloned-voice TTS that reads your text in 17 languages with natural prosody.
- Voices
- Cloneable
- Languages
- 17
- Latency
- Real-time
Hailuo-02
VideoText- and image-to-video model — turn a brief or a storyboard into a 6-second clip.
- Length
- 6s
- Modes
- T2V · I2V
- Best at
- Cinematic shots
Multimodal MiniMax, without the consumer-app maze.
Most overseas users hit the same wall: Chinese phone numbers, regional payments, API key plumbing, proxies. Floatboat removes all of that — and gives you more than a chat box.
| Capability | Floatboat | Web playgrounds | DIY API + proxy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Text + voice + video in one canvas | Yes | No | No |
| Reuse a video brief as a Combo Skill | Yes | No | No |
| Switch MiniMax ↔ GPT ↔ Claude mid-chat | Yes | No | No |
| Works outside China without VPN | Yes | Yes | No |
| No Chinese phone / payment required | Yes | Yes | No |
| No API key juggling across modalities | Yes | Yes | No |
Mechanism
Three steps from download to your first MiniMax video.
01
Download Floatboat
Free for macOS and Windows. Sign in with one click — no credit card, no API key, no setup.
02
Pick MiniMax in the model picker
M2 for text, Speech-02 for voice, Hailuo-02 for video — all three modalities in one place.
03
Brief once, ship in three modalities
Write a brief, render a video, voice it over, share the result — without leaving the canvas.
MiniMax, multiplied by the rest of Floatboat.
A chat tab is the floor. Inside Floatboat, every model plugs into your tacit memory, your reusable skills, your custom tools, and your agent group chat.
Tacit Engine
MiniMax inherits your house style — captions, voice tone, brand color choices.
Learn more →Combo Skills
Wrap a brief → script → voice → video pipeline into a one-click playbook.
Learn more →Selfware
Let MiniMax build a tiny internal tool — a thumbnail generator, a caption translator.
Learn more →FloatIM
Drop a MiniMax-powered agent into a group chat that produces voice replies.
Learn more →MiniMax on Floatboat — FAQ
Use MiniMax M2, voice, and video — all in Floatboat.
Download Floatboat for Mac or Windows and pick MiniMax from the model picker. No keys, no VPN, no Chinese phone number.