MAX Framework

MAX is Modular’s open and extensible AI inference framework for building and serving models. It supports thousands of model architectures across image, video, speech, and text modalities, exposes OpenAI-compatible endpoints, and can program deployments across multiple GPUs, nodes, and mixed hardware. MAX is part of Modular’s unified stack alongside Mojo, the company’s Pythonic systems language for CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs; Modular describes MAX as providing portable model serving and performance across different hardware platforms.

Microsoft Foundry is Microsoft's enterprise AI platform for building, grounding, deploying, evaluating, and governing AI applications and agents. It provides access to a broad selection of foundation, open, reasoning, multimodal, and industry-specific models, with tools for model customization, model routing, agent development, organizational grounding, business-system connections, and hosted deployment. Its lifecycle features include tracing, built-in evaluation for qualities such as relevance and groundedness, runtime security controls, and unified governance across agents, tools, and knowledge sources. In the cited workshop, models hosted on Foundry were accessed through the OpenAI SDK for scenario testing and evaluations.

MiniMax is an artificial-intelligence company and model provider offering large language models through hosted APIs, including models designed for coding, reasoning, and tool-using agent workflows. It is used as a model provider by agent frameworks such as Hermes Agent.

OpenAI is an AI model provider whose language models are available through an API and can serve as one provider in multi-model routing architectures. The videos describe its models being used for AI replies and extraction, Amazon-review analysis and customer-service email generation, legal workflows, complex software development and debugging, and experimental or auxiliary agent tasks.

An AI API service from MiniMax that provides access to generation capabilities and context preprocessing associated with the MiniMax-H3 language model. The API includes a 2K generation stage and a context preprocessor that are not included in MiniMax-H3's open-weight release.