MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Space Performance + Bunny Speed 🚀🐰 Yes, Space Bunny - which has topped global leaderboards with 200T+ tokens - was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash. 💰Redefining the performance economics of agentic AI. M3.1 Flash achieves frontier-level intelligence across key tasks such as Cowork (Automation-Bench: 62%; ALE: 30%), Coding (DeepSWE: 74%) and Visual Reasoning (BabyVision: 91%), at 1/3 the cost of M3 and 3x the speed. API pricing (flat rate): $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, with cache reads at $0.015 / 1M tokens. Model weights will arrive on Oct 23. API: platform.minimax.io M Plan: minimax.io/m-plan MiniMax Code for desktop: agent.minimax.io/download

MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Space Performance + Bunny Speed 🚀🐰 Yes, Space Bunny - which has topped global leaderboards with 200T+ tokens - was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash. 💰Redefining the performance economics of agentic AI. M3.1 Flash achieves frontier-level intelligence across key tasks such as Cowork (Automation-Bench: 62%; ALE: 30%), Coding (DeepSWE: 74%) and Visual Reasoning (BabyVision: 91%), at 1/3 the cost of M3 and 3x the speed. API pricing (flat rate): $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, with cache reads at $0.015 / 1M tokens. Model weights will arrive on Oct 23. API: platform.minimax.io M Plan: minimax.io/m-plan MiniMax Code for desktop: agent.minimax.io/download

MiniMax M3.1 Flash: Space Performance + Bunny Speed 🚀🐰 Yes, Space Bunny - which has topped global leaderboards with 200T+ tokens - was an earlier version of M3.1 Flash. 💰Redefining the performance economics of agentic AI. M3.1 Flash achieves frontier-level intelligence across key tasks such as Cowork (Automation-Bench: 62%; ALE: 30%), Coding (DeepSWE: 74%) and Visual Reasoning (BabyVision: 91%), at 1/3 the cost of M3 and 3x the speed. API pricing (flat rate): $0.15 / $0.60 per 1M input/output tokens, with cache reads at $0.015 / 1M tokens. Model weights will arrive on Oct 23. API: platform.minimax.io M Plan: minimax.io/m-plan MiniMax Code for desktop: agent.minimax.io/download

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 17 OPENAI 🔥: - OpenAI upgraded GPT-6 Astra Pro in ChatGPT with faster responses, better plugin and tool use, and multiple agents working in parallel, now available to Pro users. - Codex and Work now give more effective usage by reusing context across subagents, caching it longer, and routing requests for more cache hits. GOOGLE 🔥: - Google AI Pro subscribers can now build with Gemini 4 Argon in AI Studio Build and the playground. - Google AI Studio Build added Plan and Max modes for planning before changes and working longer for better results. - Gemini Notebook is preparing step-by-step Slides and Video creation from chat, based on a new hidden notice. DEEPSEEK 🔥: - DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an open-weight MIT-licensed update with big gains in reasoning, coding, agentic and visual tasks plus faster, shorter outputs. SPACEXSI 🔥: - Grok Bots are now available on Grok web and mobile. - Grok Bot got much faster, finishing computer tasks 3x sooner on average and other replies in less than half the time. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Claude Code Review is now generally available for Team and Enterprise plans, with Quick, Standard and Deep review levels per repo. PERPLEXITY 🔥: - Perplexity open-sourced Decider v1.2 and Decider Flash v1.2, its 27B and 4B multimodal decision models. - Gemini 4 Argon is now available in Perplexity for Pro and Max subscribers. NVIDIA 🔥: - NVIDIA RTX Spark Windows laptops, pairing a Blackwell GPU with a Grace CPU and up to 128GB of unified memory, are now on sale. - NVIDIA quietly released Nemotron Labs Dory 1.0, a 4B looped open model with a 256K context window, on Hugging Face. REFLECTION 🔥: - Reflection released Beam, an open-weight model under Apache 2.0 with 40+ launch partners. CURSOR 🔥: - Cursor cloud agents can now build interactive canvases like dashboards and reports that can be shared as a link. TENCENT 🔥: - Tencent released Hy Memory 2.0, an open-source memory model, framework, and MemHub app that syncs across 10+ AI tools. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.

Apparently, for @AnthropicAI, 50 deaths and a billion dollars are simply a cost of doing business. This is unacceptable.

man, I'm really not a fan of this tbh. It seems kind but I really don't want unelected technocrats to possess so much power that they're literally going to distribute capital. end result is simple: Anthropic PBC will give out more $$ than entire governments. So citizens of smaller countries will be at the mercy of Anthropic PBC. horrible outcome.

Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill sets "killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people" as the risk threshold for blocking the release of an AI model In contrast, when a single patient (Jesse Gelsinger) died in a gene therapy clinical trial in 1999: - The institute that ran the trial was dissolved - The senior scientist running the trial was banned from clinical work for 5 years - Gene therapy saw deep cuts in funding and research activity for a decade Tech and biotech have just profoundly different cultures of risk. As AI companies increasingly engage with biomedical research, a culture clash is inevitable politico.com/news/2026/10/16/anthropic-ai-safety-01124654

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

Elon Musk just confirmed that its the beginning of Universal High income. Enjoy your last months before the abundance begins and we enter the golden era.

The AI Builder Program is expanding across Europe with $10M in total support across compute grants, capital, and community programs. Are you building open models, developer tools, or applications on top of them? The program helps builders go from experimentation to scale-up through: - Compute grants for selected projects in areas such as open models, coding agents, post-training, and evals - VC connections to help turn open source projects into companies - Hackathons and demo days with communities including @AITinkerers, @techeurope_ , and @esra_robotics to build, connect, and share your work We’re kicking off the European expansion this week at #NVIDIAGTC Berlin with @NVIDIAAI, @Accel, and a network of European VCs. Building AI in Europe? Details below. 👇

Welcome back. Space Bunny. 🚀 MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is coming.

Excited to introduce Simplified Matching Distillation (SMD) for few-step diffusion🧵 No auxiliary score model. No adversarial training. No generator modification. You will get: • Photorealistic appearance • High-quality dynamics • Memory-efficient training • Mode covering with diverse outputs SMD works well across images, video, joint audio–video, and 3D gen, validated across model scales up to 33B parameters. Besides, SMD supports: - Multi-teacher capability merging (like OPD in LLM) - Cross-model capability transfer - Bidirectional teacher to causal distillation Full release. Paper, code, model and data. Project Page: zjwfufu.github.io/SMD-Page/ Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2610.18472 Code: github.com/zjwfufu/SMD Model Card & Data: huggingface.co/zjwfufu/SMD Demo Video 👇

Universal high incoming is coming. Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into a Public Benefit Fund, subject to shareholder approval, with another 2 percentage points potentially added for every 50% increase in company value at the board’s discretion. The fund could support nonprofits or make direct payments to specific groups affected by AI, but it is not a commitment to universal basic income. Elon Musk supports the idea and is even calling for more direct payments to the general population. Anthropic seems certain: co-founder Jack Clark stated yesterday that we have now reached the singularity. Welcome to the future, friends!