MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash, claiming frontier-level AI performance at one-third the cost and three times the speed

MiniMax revealed that "Space Bunny," which topped global leaderboards with 200T+ tokens, was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash. The company claims the model delivers frontier-level agentic performance at one-third the cost of M3 and three times the speed. Cited benchmarks include Cowork (Automation-Bench: 62%; ALE: 30%), Coding (DeepSWE: 74%), and Visual Reasoning (BabyVision: 91%). API pricing is $0.15/$0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, with cache reads at $0.015 per 1M tokens. Model weights are slated for release on October 23, alongside API, M Plan, and desktop coding offerings.

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