20 October 2026
MiniMax reveals anonymous Space Bunny model was M3.1 Flash, releases it cheaper
First reported
SiliconANGLE and The Decoder ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.
- MiniMax, a Chinese AI company, confirmed that the anonymous 'Space Bunny' model on OpenRouter was an early build of its new M3.1 Flash.
- M3.1 Flash costs 15 cents per million input tokens and runs about three times faster than its predecessor M3, according to the company.
- Independent testing by Artificial Analysis gave it a score of 42 on its intelligence index, behind DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash at 45.
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Reported by SiliconANGLE, The Decoder