Latent SpaceArticle
[AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
The cost efficiency is real: training a trillion-parameter model for $3M represents a meaningful drop in the frontier. This is a signal that open-weights competition is moving upstream, not downstream. For builders choosing between closed APIs and open models, the calculus just shifted. For investors watching the consolidation thesis: if Chinese labs can hit frontier scale at these costs, the differentiation layer moves from training to inference, tooling, and applications.