It's the first time in the history of the world.
Recently, people watching the AI circle suddenly noticed that there was only "a rabbit".
On September 23, the model aggregation platform OpenRouter and the programming tool OpenCode simultaneously uploaded an anonymous model called Space Bunny Alpha, free for a limited time.
OpenRouter officially states directly that this is a Flash model.
It is quick to reason, strong to reason, has a million tokens in context, and can directly view text, images, and video.
Later that evening, a developer took its dictionary and made a comparison. The result was that its text dictionary matched the MiniMax M3, which the developer said was almost certainly the MiniMax M3.1.
The next day, someone specially prepared a cue word for 24 detections to see how many tokens it cut into each. The result was that the number of tokens matched the MiniMax model.
Many developers speculate that the mysterious "space bug" probably came from the MiniMax.
Four days later, on September 27, MiniMax officially launched the new Flash model M3.1-Flash-Preview.
Its reasoning intensity is six degrees adjustable, its context is the same as that of a million tokens, and text, images and video can be directly entered, like a box.
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However, as of this writing, neither MiniMax nor OpenRouter have been certified.
But no matter what the answer is, before the eleventh long holiday, MiniMax has already made a king out of the flash track!
I've been trying to figure out if the Flash really works.
We've been playing well for two days, and we've given it life, no matter how big it is, and it's checked repeatedly, and it's changed a little bit until it's satisfactory.
The Flash, the brain is good enough.
The "Ride a Bicycle" in the AI circle, the M3.1-Flash-Preview, is stable this time around.
On the top of the day, a blogger took it to a classic test of AI circles and had it draw a bicycle saddle, prompting the effect of "not losing GPT-6 Astra at all".
It's a full-page action painting of a sea turtle.
This is not a simple question.
In 2024, Simon Willison, co-founder of the open-source web framework Django, came up with an incredible tip:
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle.
The first difficulty is the bicycle. It looks simple, but in 2006 psychologist Rebecca Lawson of the University of Liverpool found that 40% of people do not recognize the correct position of a shelf, foot or chain.
The second difficulty is that Simon specifically chose a combination that is not present in the reality of "Bicycling", so outside of the distribution of training data, the model can't duplicate anything and can only construct the image in its own mind.
In June last year, Simon reviewed the progress of the big model with a series of model drawings, at a time when most models were so confused that even the top models could hardly recognize them as cars and bicycles.
We gave the same suggestion to the M3.1 Flash and the previous generation M3 respectively.
The M3 also drew both the car and the bicycle, but the details are a bit worse, there are fewer seats on the car, and the feet are not connected to the rack.
The M3.1 is significantly better this time around. The bird's tail and the huge throat bag feature are prominent, the seat is stable, the rack is standard curved, the feet are on the pedals, the wings are supported by the handlebars, and everything is fine.
The two turrets opened the gap because the M3.1 was more willing to work hard.
While drawing this picture, it screened the effect at the same time, checking it nine times to find out where it was wrong to move.
In less than two years since those "shares that caused the stock market to collapse" counted, the shark has been steadily climbing up the ladder.
Web development, drawing, drawing, drawing, drawing, drawing, and so on.
M3.1 Flash is also very handy when it comes to writing code.
We're going to give a smart catcher a product landing page, and we're not going to write a requirement document, we're just going to give it a hand-drawn wireframe.
In addition to a few frames that mark the layout of the page, the graph has seven requirements, which are very bold.
So it had to recognize the handwriting, understand what each request meant, and make the next one a useful function.
On the left is a wireframe drawing by us, and on the right is a landing page made by M3.1 Flash.For this sketch, it uses seven hands to write a request for one not to fall.
The head of the cat on the front screen will follow the mouse, and the mouse will stop at the point of sale card, and the card will roll back to show the parameters.
If the phone number is lost in the reservation form, the input box will also click to remind you.
After its completion, it scanned the images on both computer and mobile screens, requiring a step-by-step inspection.
To make a web page, you have to be able to make the data clear.
We used real weather data to draw a map of Shanghai's temperature spiral from 1940 to 2025.
The difficulty is that the data has to find itself, organize itself, and draw each point back to the original data.
From the open historical weather interface, it pulls down the records of every day for the past 86 years, without missing a day, and then compiles the monthly data itself.
The painted spiral, surrounded by a circle of 12 months a year, with colors ranging from cold to warm, can be played and can also drag the year.
On the right is a graph showing how much higher each month is than the reference year, as well as a column graph showing the number of high-temperature days per year.
As you can see directly on the chart, the warming is most evident in the spring. From 2016 to 2025, March was above the reference level of 3.43 °C and July was only 1.73 °C.
High temperatures above 35°C have also increased. The 51 years from 1940 to 1990 added up to 125 days, and the ten years from 2016 to 2025 added up to 139 days.
It also wrote a test to check the numerical value of each of the 1,032 data points drawn.
It self-directed an AI short film and dubbed its own promotional film.
Recently, Claude Opus 5.5 has been producing hot videos.
For example, Opus 5.5 can automatically generate a full-length MV or visual work in 12 hours.
The five-minute MV of the station exploded directly into the masks, which he called "God's work", "the epic masterpiece"!
What is the effect of M3.1 Flash on video?
We gave it a creative theme for an experimental short film in Python, entitled "What it feels like to be a big model".The style should follow the path of the YouTube Poop, which is a disruptive, faulty, full-screen web screw-up clip, but not just a screw-up, but also a bit of poetry and unrest.
It is difficult to conceive, filter, feature, soundtrack until the final synthesis, complete it by one person, and each image must be calculated by code.
25.7 minutes later, an 88-second short film was released, which captured seven scenes of how the big model worked.
The film begins with an opening self-examination. Then a series of human-written e-mails, eulogies, codes, poems, and chats fill the entire wall, which are its contents.
The subtitle reads, "It's not me who's picking up the words, it's the probability distribution that's picking me up". The higher the "temperature" control of randomness, the more the screen eventually pops up with a "consistency error".
At the end, its own sentences are rewritten word for word by trained data, eventually collapsing into infinite repetition, producing a line "forever", and returning to the opening screen.
The entire film was generated by code without the use of an existing material, including images, sideshows, rain sounds, and type sounds. After rendering, the film itself was screened, two image bugs were found, and after repairs, it was rendered again.
In addition to zero-creation, it can also be dubbed as a finished film.
We gave it a promotional video of the MiniMax H3 and let it do it in this style and remake it to MiniMax Design. The original black bottom, round square frames and fast-paced collages were to be kept, but none of the images could be used with the original.
It divided the original film's composition into three parts, each with a different number, and called MiniMax Code's own bio-graphic tool to create new material for 16 design themes. The soundtrack was also produced by it.
Up for the M3.1 Flash remake and down for the original.From understanding the original film, tuning the soundtrack to cutting through the code, the entire link goes by itself.
The older the system is, the more the cards are used, the worse the bugs are.The challenge is the imagination of space, whereas the real challenge of Flash every day is to write business code and fix bugs.
The more the internal system of the company uses overcards, the more workers' daily breakdowns occur. The first time it was opened, the pages began to rotate a few times, and the next half day.
In this case, we built a custom workflow system that contained 12,000 workflow files and gave the M3.1-Flash-Preview a few user snippets, opened the lists slowly, searched for typing cards, and the more the pages crossed the cards.
Users will only shout "car" and there will be no indication of where or why the card is.
It replicated all of these cartridges by hand, and then drilled down a layer of performance data, bringing out the real culprits of six drag-and-drop systems, one by one.
The original version was squeezed into the search box one word at a time, and the revised version had already come back with two pages.
Upstairs is the original version, downstairs is the M3.1 Flash repair version, and both sides do the same set of operations.The original version had to wait 12.7 seconds, and the restored version was only 0.013 seconds.
A total of 120,000 workers have passed the 22 functionality tests that we have stored in advance.
There's a more insidious bug that doesn't make any mistakes.
sqlglot is a SQL tool used by many data teams. Users found that it lost its brackets when simplifying SQL, changing 2*(10-5) to 2*10-5, resulting in 10 becoming 15.
But the program is running as normal, and the numbers on the report are so wrong.
The same SQL is executed by DuckDB, before and after the M3.1 Flash fix.M3.1 Flash repaired this example and there was no rush to cross.
It also wrote a set of tests that compared the results of the abbreviation 3190 times in a real database, and uncovered two related bugs already hidden in the code.
Finally, all official test cases of the project were approved.
In 3D modeling, the rocket is separated in the night sky and the light is blocked by a black hole.From the screen to the web, the painting is still flat. Instead of 3D scenes, what you have in mind is one more dimension.
Next, we let it repeat a rocket launch.
Although it takes a few minutes to look at it, the rocket's takeoff is actually a series of ring-linked movements. The propellers, full-flow caps, the first and second levels are separated in order, with the time and image of each step being correct.
The best thing to see in the picture is the three separations. The four propellers rolled off, and the two full-flow caps were torn off on both sides, and the first fell off, and the second ignited above the Earth's arc.
The entire time axis of the launch can be pulled and played at twice the speed. In the information panel next to it, each row of the parameters is clearly marked as open data, estimates or modeling assumptions.
Interstellar travels through a black hole in the shape of a crater, which is shocking. In the film, the iconic light-emitting disc appears to be "folded" to the top and bottom of the black hole, because the light near the black hole is gravitated.
This time we've created one with M3.1, which is full of details:
This is the kind of 3D black hole visualization that I never thought I could do.
What's even more surprising is that the Flash left was more than a half-point better than the M3 right than the previous generation.
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It's raining at night and it's like a game.
M3.1 Flash is also not obscure. We made it a first-person shooter game set in an abandoned port at night.
Fifty-two minutes later, a shooting game called "Operation Night Harbor" was released.
Players can run back and forth between containers, aim to fire, switch bullets, and have a small map in the upper right corner.
On this basis, we've made it an upgraded version of the visual effects.
The rain came down from the harbour, the ground was damp, the rainbow was shining, and the lights on the bridge were on the shore.
There are several oil barrels in the harbor that explode, with balls of fire, shock waves, black smoke and Mars, and screens that follow the quake.
The bullets hit metal, water, wood, and cement, with varying effects. The enemy wore helmets and tactical lights and could be seen from afar.
There is a whole series of projects behind the scenes.
The containers, shore bridges, and freighters in the harbor are all coded, and the sound of gunfire and footsteps is synthesized in real time.
In order to prevent people from crossing the wall, it also counts the path that people walk between the two walls, so that people run faster and don't wear a mask.
It's the Flash that's working every day.When it comes to Flash, what you're most interested in is the speed.
In the MiniMax Code, we've moved the intensity of reasoning to the maximum level, making it a complete greedy snake-eating game.
In less than a minute, a 492-line, double-click greedy-eating snake has been written, and the interface shows a generating speed of 123 tokens per second.
Delivery was also quick. The hand-painted wireframe chart in front of it, which started by looking at the chart and ended up making an efficient landing page, took only half an hour to finish.
It's a bug in a real open source project, and it's fixed too.
Web frameworks Hono and Markdown parsed libraries marked with a user-reported bug, which was fixed in just 2.8 minutes and 3.7 minutes respectively, and the official return test was all passed.
the marked bug, repair the pre-task list, run separately to a row, and then return to the front of the text after the repair
Remember, this is just a Flash model.
In the past, the expectations of Flash models were "cheap, easy to use, fast".
But now the rules of the game have changed.
The MiniMax M3.1 Flash is fully capable of capturing dirt and delivering real "take it and use it" results.
If we stretch the horizon, the current "Flash Model War" can be called a fairy tale.
On OpenRouter, the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash weekly calls reached 19.6 trillion tokens, the Smart Spectrum GLM 5.3 Flash has been steadily hitting 16.3 trillion tokens, and even the MiMo series is on the rise.
The battle for the Flash, the M3.1, has just begun; and how will the next Pro accelerate?
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