Minimax is a Chinese startup that provides LLM service for companies and individuals. This example goes over how to use LangChain to interact with MiniMax Inference for Chat. 
import os

os.environ["MINIMAX_GROUP_ID"] = "MINIMAX_GROUP_ID"
os.environ["MINIMAX_API_KEY"] = "MINIMAX_API_KEY"

from langchain_community.chat_models import MiniMaxChat
from langchain_core.messages import HumanMessage

chat = MiniMaxChat()

chat(
    [
        HumanMessage(
            content="Translate this sentence from English to French. I love programming."
        )
    ]
)