Why Is a One-Cent Model Beating Opus 5?
MiniMax revealed that Space Bunny, the anonymous model that ran free on OpenRouter for days, was an early version of its new M3.1 Flash, priced at 15 cents per million input tokens. Nick and Jack go through the benchmarks against DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Opus 5, a landing page build that cost one cent on MiniMax and $1.22 on Opus 5.5, and why labs launch models under code names. Then the Department of Homeland Security ordered every civilian agency to remove DeepSeek, including third-party services built on it, and Jack floats a theory about hidden signatures in model output. Plus voice clones…
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