A phone maker now has the world’s top open-weight AI model
THE SO WHAT
Xiaomi putting MiMo‑V2.6 open-weight Pro and Flash under MIT on Hugging Face—while topping open benchmarks per Artificial Analysis—means a hardware OEM is now a serious model supplier. Device makers and automakers can no longer assume they’ll just consume models from labs; they may need a model strategy of their own or risk being outflanked by peers who ship vertically integrated AI.
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