multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.
distillation — Training a small, cheap model to imitate a big one's outputs, keeping much of the capability at a fraction of the cost.
mixture-of-experts — A model built from many specialist sub-networks where only a few activate per token, giving big-model capability at small-model running cost.
open weights — A model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.
Why it matters
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 family (Flash/Pro variants, hundreds of GB, multimodalA model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.Full definition →) adds another credible open weightsA model whose trained parameters are published for anyone to download and run — unlike API-only models you can access but never possess.Full definition → frontier option for practitioners choosing inference targets.