🤖🧠 MiniMax-M2: The Open-Source Revolution Powering Coding and Agentic Intelligence

🗓️ 30 Oct 2025
📚 AI News & Trends

Artificial intelligence is evolving faster than ever, but not every innovation needs to be enormous to make an impact. MiniMax-M2, the latest release from MiniMax-AI, demonstrates that efficiency and power can coexist within a streamlined framework. MiniMax-M2 is an open-source Mixture of Experts (MoE) model designed for coding tasks, multi-agent collaboration and automation workflows. With ...

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💡 Keras: Building Neural Networks Simply

Keras is a high-level deep learning API, now part of TensorFlow, designed for fast and easy experimentation. This guide covers the fundamental workflow: defining, compiling, training, and using a neural network model.

from tensorflow import keras
from tensorflow.keras import layers

# Define a Sequential model
model = keras.Sequential([
    # Input layer with 64 neurons, expecting flat input data
    layers.Dense(64, activation="relu", input_shape=(784,)),
    # A hidden layer with 32 neurons
    layers.Dense(32, activation="relu"),
    # Output layer with 10 neurons for 10-class classification
    layers.Dense(10, activation="softmax")
])

model.summary()

• Model Definition: keras.Sequential creates a simple, layer-by-layer model.
• layers.Dense is a standard fully-connected layer. The first layer must specify the input_shape.
• activation functions like "relu" introduce non-linearity, while "softmax" is used on the output layer for multi-class classification to produce probabilities.

# (Continuing from the previous step)
model.compile(
    optimizer='adam',
    loss='sparse_categorical_crossentropy',
    metrics=['accuracy']
)

print("Model compiled successfully.")

• Compilation: .compile() configures the model for training.
• optimizer is the algorithm used to update the model's weights (e.g., 'adam' is a popular choice).
• loss is the function the model tries to minimize during training. sparse_categorical_crossentropy is common for integer-based classification labels.
• metrics are used to monitor the training and testing steps. Here, we track accuracy.

import numpy as np

# Create dummy training data
x_train = np.random.random((1000, 784))
y_train = np.random.randint(10, size=(1000,))

# Train the model
history = model.fit(
    x_train,
    y_train,
    epochs=5,
    batch_size=32,
    verbose=0 # Hides the progress bar for a cleaner output
)

print(f"Training complete. Final accuracy: {history.history['accuracy'][-1]:.4f}")
# Output (will vary):
# Training complete. Final accuracy: 0.4570

• Training: The .fit() method trains the model on your data.
• x_train and y_train are your input features and target labels.
• epochs defines how many times the model will see the entire dataset.
• batch_size is the number of samples processed before the model is updated.

# Create a single dummy sample to test
x_test = np.random.random((1, 784))

# Get the model's prediction
predictions = model.predict(x_test)
predicted_class = np.argmax(predictions[0])

print(f"Predicted class: {predicted_class}")
print(f"Confidence scores: {predictions[0].round(2)}")
# Output (will vary):
# Predicted class: 3
# Confidence scores: [0.09 0.1  0.1  0.12 0.1  0.09 0.11 0.1  0.09 0.1 ]

• Prediction: .predict() is used to make predictions on new, unseen data.
• For a classification model with a softmax output, this returns an array of probabilities for each class.
• np.argmax() is used to find the index (the class) with the highest probability score.

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