MiniMax Confirms Space Bunny as Its Model, M3.1 Flash Imminent

MiniMax publicly claiming an anonymous model is a notable branding move in a market where open model rankings on aggregators like OpenRouter have become de facto marketing. Space Bunny's rapid climb to the top of daily token-call rankings, alongside DeepSeek and GLM, signals that flash-tier models are now the volume battleground rather than frontier releases. The imminent M3.1 Flash release suggests MiniMax is trying to convert that anonymous momentum into a named product line. Whether the Space Bunny attribution holds up and whether M3.1 Flash inherits that traffic is the open question.