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MiMo v2.6

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  1. rao-v · · focus · HN ↗
    I know we have strong views on what a truly open model is (open weights, open training data, open training code etc.) but I really like how transparent they’ve been about the training of this model.

    The realtime dashboard they shared during training (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mimo.xiaomi.com&#x2F;rl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mimo.xiaomi.com&#x2F;rl&#x2F;) was an incredible learning and teaching tool for me, and they’ve been unusually comprehensive in sharing details about their methodology (check out that tech report - it&#x27;s got lots of clever behind the scene tricks like Google or Deepseek writeups) and benchmark scores (even the stuff they didn’t do well on).

    If you’re releasing an open model going forward, please consider offering the community more of this transparency!

    1. MangoCoffee · · focus · HN ↗
      maybe this is why Dario want to slow down AI development and all the big AI labs in the USA is singing the same song.

      whey they all singing the same tune. it make me question what is their real motives.

      they are afraid of Chinese good enough LLM model killing their margin. we already have story about US companies switch some task to use cheaper Chinese model hosted on Neoclouds.

      1. aeyes · · focus · HN ↗
        The reason is money. They want regulation to make it harder for new competitors and competitors from other countries.

        They invested billions into training the models but there is no competitive advantage, we see that within a couple of months everyone catches up. There is no way to profitability unless they get some policies to shields them against competitors that can&#x27;t comply with the regulatory requirements.

        That is also why there are things like Claude, Codex and Cursor. They are trying hard to build a customer relationship with a higher switching cost that hopefully sticks.

        But the problem is that the AI buildout has become a large percentage of GDP. So obviously the government wants to keep it going because these companies are pumping enormous amounts of money into the economy.

        1. Shekelphile · · focus · HN ↗
          No chinese lab has caught up yet. They&#x27;ve tried to fake it by distilling and overfitting on benchmarks to make their models look better than they are, the &#x27;best&#x27; models available from chinese labs right now (GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3) fall apart completely when you try to do real work with them. K3 is especially embarrassing because it is larger than Mythos yet performs worse than opus 5 and 5.6 sol in benchmarks they haven&#x27;t been able to fake yet.
          1. kkotak · · focus · HN ↗
            In that case, Open AI and Anthropic have nothing to worry about.
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