MiniMax showed its hand. Space Bunny is M3.1-Flash.
1M context, video support, $0.15/$0.60 /M. A third the cost of M3, 3x faster.
62.2 on Automation-Bench, beating DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017. Official word: open weights Oct 23.
MiniMax showed its hand. Space Bunny is M3.1-Flash.
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No wonder agent search results have been garbage lately.
Some websites are now blocking agents. Yelp wants agents to pay for a data license before it lets them in. Delta won't let an agent book a flight for you. JPMorgan and Schwab are locking accounts over "security concerns." I think websites exist to serve people, and supporting agents is just a better way to serve people. Blocking them is going the wrong direction. It's like forcing people to mail a paper letter when live chat is right there. 😮💨
DeepSeek just shipped V4.1-Flash-1017.
Benchmarks all moved up: Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 31.2 to 42.3, ProgramBench 20.3 to 29.1, Apex Bench 64.6 to 72.1, DeepSWE 74.2 to 77.0. Runs finish quicker now, and the answers come out shorter. They tuned it for DeepSeek Harness, Tencent CodeBuddy and WorkBuddy, and you need Harness 0.2.1-rc.1 or newer to get the most out of it. Nothing else changed. Same price, same model name, still deepseek-flash, 1M context, 384K max output. Your code doesn't move.
I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.
You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika
My product went profitable, and something in me broke.
Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.
