[AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a natively omnimodal 1T-A42B open-weights model trained for $3M.
“MiMo-V2.6-Pro is our most capable model to date, while MiMo-V2.6-Flash strikes the best balance between intelligence, efficiency, and cost.”
Xiaomi, a phone maker turned frontier lab and not among the traditional 'six Chinese AI Tigers,' released MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a natively omnimodal 1T-A42B model claimed as the top open-weights model, reportedly trained for only $3M. It matters because it signals an unexpected new entrant achieving frontier-level results cheaply, with unusual transparency into its RL training runs led by ex-DeepSeek engineer Fuli Luo.