MiniMax Confirms It Is Behind Anonymous Model ‘Space Bunny’

The confirmation matters less for the branding than for what it reveals about model distribution: a lab can now seed an anonymous model, let benchmark and token-call rankings do the marketing, and claim it only after traction is proven. That shifts early reputation-building away from launch events and toward OpenRouter-style usage data, which is where MiniMax's claim now has to hold up against DeepSeek and GLM. Whether Space Bunny's token-call lead persists once the name is attached, rather than reflecting novelty or free-tier routing, is the open question.