Hands-on: Space Bunny (anonymous M3.1 Flash) trails DeepSeek V4.1 on real projects despite close benchmarks
After several days on real projects, the author finds Space Bunny, the early anonymous M3.1 Flash, clearly worse than DeepSeek V4.1-1017 despite similar benchmark scores.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash looks better in benchmarks than it does in real projects. The mysterious Space Bunny Alpha turned out to be an early version of MiniMax M3.1 Flash, so I was curious how it would compare with DeepSeek V4.1-1017. After several days of using it on real projects, I wasn't particularly impressed. Some benchmarks suggest they're close. My experience tells a different story. DeepSeek performed significantly better on the tasks I tested. Have you tried both? What was your experience? https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2112111925975032241
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