On April 16, 2026, ThinkingAI took the stage at the historic Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California to present a new vision for the company.
During the afternoon event, ThinkingAI co-founder, Chris Han, presented three major announcements. These included a new brand name, the first demo of the company’s AI platform, the Agentic Engine, and a key partnership with the LLM company MiniMax.
The presentation was then followed by two panels each filled with some of the biggest AI companies in Silicon Valley including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and more.
From Data to AI
For the past 10 years ThinkingAI, formerly known as ThinkingData, powered over 1,500 companies and 8,000 products with a best-in-class unified data analytics and live ops platform. Its mission was to help every company harness the power of data. On April 16, 2026 under its new name, ThinkingAI, the company set out with a new mission: to help every company harness the power of AI.
Taking the past decade of work, ThinkingAI has transformed its knowledge of how apps use data to grow revenue and user retention and turned it into skills that power its AI agents for autonomous operations within a company’s data environment.
The Agentic Engine
To demonstrate this mission in practical terms, Chris presented a video demo that walks users through a full loop of the Agentic Engine’s workflow.
It begins with the AI agents producing an automatic report for your enterprise’s data team, first thing in the morning. 7-day retention is down 12%, but before your team begins panicking, the agent has already started digging through both structured and unstructured data and comes back with its analysis. A new onboarding flow is causing players to get stuck at a critical level. The agent then comes up with possible solutions. With a single approval, your agent can begin an A/B test before rolling out the winning variant. Retention rates rise, revenue grows, and your team can continue working on strategy that really matters.
This is Agentic Engine in a single loop, but it’s also only just the surface of its capabilities. Check out our full blog on how Agentic Engine delivers on ThinkingAI’s three core beliefs of the Agentic AI era: Autonomous, with the total context of your business, all self-hosted for complete data security.
MiniMax Partnership
While Agentic Engine is an open platform compatible with all major LLMs, like ChatGPT and Claude, ThinkingAI is proud to announce that MiniMax will serve as the default LLM out of the box. While there will be no differences in features between LLMs, MiniMax will provide new customers with a reliable default experience.
MiniMax is the developer of a series of multimodal general-purpose large models and AI-native products, and boasts industry-leading technical capabilities across key dimensions including complex programming tasks, multimodal content creation, and automated task processing. To date, MiniMax has served over 236 million individual users worldwide, as well as enterprise clients and developers in over 100 countries and regions, making it one of the most commercially mature large model providers in the world.
Chris was joined by MiniMax’s President of Global Business, Linda Sheng, to announce the partnership, and Linda later sat down with event moderator Dasha Shunina to discuss the future of agentic AI in a fireside chat.
The Wider AI World Joins ThinkingAI
Following the keynote address, ThinkingAI hosted two panels that covered the biggest questions in the AI world today. Both panels were moderated by Forbes’ Dasha Shunina who was joined on stage by some of the world’s largest AI company representatives.
The first panel was titled, AI Inside the Enterprise: What Actually Changes in the Next Five Years, and discussed the new ways enterprises are leveraging AI at scale. As part of this panel Dasha was joined by Dave Anderson (Eragon), Peter Danenberg (Google DeepMind), Emre Okcular (OpenAI), Keith Zhai (TinyFish), and Ethan Zheng (Jobright).
The second panel was titled, What Actually Gets Funded in the AI Economy?, and discussed the ways AI is changing both venture capital behavior as well as employment in the tech industry. On stage for this panel was Richard Xu (Starting Gate Fund), Valerie Bertele (Microsoft), Gary Qi (Bytedance), Gloria Zhang (DCM Ventures), and Murray Newlands (IASV Seed Ventures).
With the past 10 years of data behind us, we look forward to the next 10 years of agents. Our promise is that enterprises can build their own agent teams to analyze and act on the billions of data points that flow into their system. With Agentic Engine, we want to integrate agent employees into your workforce and free your human employees so they can focus on what truly matters to your enterprise.
To find out more about Agentic Engine and ThinkingAI, book a demo with us today and join us in the AI agent era.
