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MiniMax Launches M3.1 Flash Model and Says It Cuts AI Agent Costs
MiniMax has officially launched its M3.1 Flash model and confirmed that Space Bunny, the stealth model, was an early version of it. The company says it cuts AI agent costs by 70%, while VentureBeat reports that it outperforms DeepSeek and Opus 5 on a key business test at a lower cost, but with a high hallucination rate.
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- In its launch post, MiniMax confirmed that Space Bunny, the anonymous model that operated in stealth, was an early version of M3.1 Flash.
«confirming in its launch post that Space Bunny, an anonymous model that processed more than 200 trillion tokens while operating in stealth»
unite.ai - MiniMax announced the official launch of the model on October 19, 2026.
«MiniMax on October 19, 2026, officially rolled out MiniMax M3.1 Flash»
unite.ai - The company says the model cuts AI agent costs by 70%.
«MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash model, says it cuts AI agent costs by 70%»
SiliconANGLE - When the model cannot give the correct answer, it mostly chooses a wrong answer rather than admitting it does not know.
«when M3.1 Flash failed to provide a correct answer, it overwhelmingly chose to give an incorrect one rather than acknowledge that it did not know.»
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