How to use MiniMax in BoltAI

MiniMax makes the MiniMax chat models, plus image, music and voice models. In BoltAI you can chat with them, make images, music and lyrics in a chat, and have replies read aloud in MiniMax voices.

Before you start

An API key from the MiniMax Developer Platform.

Set up MiniMax in BoltAI

1. Open Settings › AI Providers, click +, and choose MiniMax.
2. Paste your key into API Key.
3. Leave Base URL empty. If your MiniMax account uses a different endpoint, enter it here.
4. Click Next.
5. Keep all models, or untick the ones you don't want. To choose the model this provider starts with, hover over it and click Set as Default.
6. Click Add Service.

Start a chat with MiniMax models

Click the model name in the message box, press ⇧ ⌘ M, or type /model, and pick a model under MiniMax.

To start every new chat with it, right-click the model and choose Set Provider & Model as Default. See Choose and switch models.

To get a quick answer without thinking, choose Off in the reasoning effort menu next to the model name.

Make images, music and lyrics

With a MiniMax model selected, open the chat's Tools menu (press ⇧ ⌘ T). Under Provider Tools, turn on:

• Image Generation to make images.
• Music Generation to make songs.
• Lyrics Generation to write lyrics.

Then ask, for example Write a short song about Monday mornings and make the music.

To change the defaults, open Settings › Plugins and click MiniMax under Native Provider Tools:

• Image Generation: the Model, the Aspect Ratio, and Prompt Optimizer.
• Music Generation: the Model, and Lyrics Optimizer, which lets MiniMax write lyrics when you don't give any.

See Tools in a chat.

Read replies aloud with MiniMax voices

1. Open Settings › Voice.
2. Under Read Aloud, set Engine to MiniMax.
3. Pick a TTS Model and a Voice.

Then use Read Aloud on any reply.

If it doesn't work

• BoltAI couldn't verify this API key. Copy the key again and paste it into API Key.
• A new model is missing. Click MiniMax in Settings › AI Providers and click Refresh Model List.