MiniMax Officially Claims Space Bunny; New Model Imminent

On the afternoon of October 19, AI company MiniMax posted a short video via its official account with the caption “Welcome back, Space Bunny.” According to Yicai Global, this move is widely seen as MiniMax’s formal acknowledgment of the anonymous model Space Bunny. Launched in late September, Space Bunny climbed to the top of OpenRouter and OpenCode’s daily token usage leaderboard within just three days—securing the #1 spot alongside DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash, which took second and third place respectively. Public information indicates that Space Bunny is, in fact, an early version of MiniMax’s upcoming M3.1 Flash model.