MiniMax - M2 and Cursor 2.0 were what I what I term as this week big newsworthy items . The M2 team continues to work with various agentic coding harness to improve its integration which bodes very well for open source models
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Chinese AI company MiniMax released its open-source MiniMax-M2 model , featuring a 230 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture that activates only 10 billion parameters for efficient performance on standard hardware.
The model supports a 204,800-token context window and excels in benchmarks for mathematics, coding, and agentic reasoning, outperforming Claude 3 Opus in several areas while running at twice the speed of competitors and costing 8% of Claude 3.5 Sonnet per token.
Free API access is available until November 7, with weights downloadable from Hugging Face and integration support from frameworks like vLLM and SGLang.
Chinese AI company MiniMax released its open-source MiniMax-M2 model , featuring a 230 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture that activates only 10 billion parameters for efficient performance on standard hardware.
The model supports a 204,800-token context window and excels in benchmarks for mathematics, coding, and agentic reasoning, outperforming Claude 3 Opus in several areas while running at twice the speed of competitors and costing 8% of Claude 3.5 Sonnet per token.
Free API access is available until November 7, with weights downloadable from Hugging Face and integration support from frameworks like vLLM and SGLang.
https://x.com/MiniMax__AI/status/1982674798649160175
Some fun facts about Minimax M2:
1 | Poster: Deus Machine We recently launched our developer copilot for the Ethereum network and lots of people who used it have good things to say. You can access it at ethereum.bytebell.ai. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1of9qyf/i_built_an_ai_that_actually_knows_ethereums/ It reached 100000 views in Two days, And developers have asked more than 1500+ queries in 2 days # Bytebell: Verified answers for engineering, not vibes Engineering teams bleed $47K per dev per year searching across repos, docs, PDFs, tickets, and Slack. Even billion parameter models hallucinate without enterprise context and cannot cite where answers came from. That's the purpose behind Bytebell. Please reach out to me if you are interested in this solution |
2 | Qualcomm unveils two AI inference chips, the AI200, set for 2026, and the AI250, planned for 2027, and says Humain is the first customer https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/27/qualcomm-ai200-ai250-ai-chips-nvidia-amd.html
Thrilled to announce the next major step in our partnership with @Qualcomm: the launch of the world’s first fully optimized edge-to-cloud AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. With 200MW of AI200 and AI250 rack solutions, the partnership will enable faster, more efficient
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1 | Cartesia raises $100M and launches Sonic-3 state-of-the-art model for realtime conversation and built on SSM (State Space Models) instead of Transformers
We've raised $100M from Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA.
Today we're introducing Sonic-3 - the state-of-the-art model for realtime conversation. What makes Sonic-3 great: - Breakthrough naturalness - laughter and full emotional range - Lightning fast - 
https://x.com/i/trending/1983222742062072180 The below newsletter has a very deep dive on Mamba, which is a SSM |
1 | Cursor Unveils 2.0 with In-House Composer AI Model for Rapid Agentic Coding Cursor launched version 2.0 of its AI-powered code editor, introducing the proprietary Composer-1 model, an in-house mixture-of-experts system trained via reinforcement learning on coding tasks. The update enables multi-agent workflows with up to eight parallel agents for planning, editing, and testing, alongside features like a built-in browser, sandboxed terminals, voice mode, and hybrid model integration for enhanced development efficiency
Introducing Cursor 2.0.
Our first coding model and the best way to code with agents. 
Composer is a new model we built at Cursor. We used RL to train a big MoE model to be really good at real-world coding, and also very fast.
cursor.com/blog/composer Excited for the potential of building specialized models to help in critical domains.  |
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Cognition (makers of Devin and acquirer of Windsurf) releases SWE-1.5, their fast agent model which is available in Windsurf
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