Space Bunny confirmed as MiniMax M3.1 Flash: index 42, tops OSWorld V2 Chinese leaderboard
The post recaps the launch: Space Bunny was an early M3.1 Flash build, with nearly 3x speed, 70% lower cost, $0.15/M input, a 13-point jump to 42 on the intelligence index, and first place on OSWorld V2's Chinese leaderboard.
MiniMax just dropped M3.1 Flash and confirmed the mystery while doing it remember Space Bunny, the anonymous model that showed up on OpenRouter in late September with no company name attached? community testers linked it to MiniMax by probing its tokenizer today the chinese AI startup confirmed it. Space Bunny was an early build of M3.1 Flash the numbers: inference speed nearly tripled, costs down 70%, priced at $0.15 per million input tokens. that puts it directly against DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on price intelligence index jumped 13 points over M3 to 42 on artificial analysis. also topped the chinese leaderboard on OSWorld V2, which tests how well a model can use a computer on its own weights drop october 23 and a more capable Pro model is coming the chinese pricing race really does have no floor in sight. every few weeks someone undercuts the last one