MiniMax officially claims Space Bunny, and the new model is about to be released

On the afternoon of October 19, the official account of the artificial intelligence company MiniMax released a short video with the caption "Welcome back, Space Bunny." First Financial reported that this move is seen as an official acknowledgment of the anonymous model Space Bunny.

Since its launch in late September, the model has topped the daily token usage charts on OpenRouter and OpenCode within three days, alongside DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash, occupying the top three positions. It is reported that Space Bunny is an early version of MiniMax M3.1 Flash, and the model is about to be officially released.