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MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

166 points · 68 comments · theanonymousone

  1. ignoramous · · focus · HN ↗
    Per Xiaomi, MiMo v2.6 training run cost $3.47m. A far cry from the estimated costs ($100m+) for the Big 5 (MSL, xAI, GDM, OAI, Ant). I wouldn't be surprised if salaries and R&D costs have similar drastic disparities.

    For a model that matches Muse Spark 1.3 in benchmarks, MiMo v2.6 Pro is incredibly cheap, given its cache rates will remain $0.0036 per million.

    1. NortySpock · · focus · HN ↗
      I sorta got the impression that the $3.47 million only covered post-training , given that few of the graphs start at zero. Is a barely-trained model going to score 48 on DeepSWE v1.1 ?

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mimo.xiaomi.com&#x2F;rl&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mimo.xiaomi.com&#x2F;rl&#x2F;

    2. imjonse · · focus · HN ↗
      That is the RL training cost only. Their announcement blog mentions this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mimo.xiaomi.com&#x2F;mimo-v2-6#scaling-rl-fully-open-sourced" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mimo.xiaomi.com&#x2F;mimo-v2-6#scaling-rl-fully-open-sour...
    3. drbscl · · focus · HN ↗
      My understanding of tech salaries in China is that they are pretty decent, but not as high as in SF; closer to typical European salaries.

      Mostly due to lower cost of living; Shenzhen is way cheaper than SV

      1. f6v · · focus · HN ↗
        I seriously doubt salaries are included. It must be just the electricity and GPU costs.
        1. drbscl · · focus · HN ↗
          In these metrics, yes. In the reported training budgets of anthropic&#x2F;openai, who knows?
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