Tuesday, September 22
Tuesday, September 22
Xiaomi Trained a Trillion-Parameter Model for Less Than a Bay Area Condo
Xiaomi just dropped MiMo-V2.6, a 1.02-trillion-parameter open-weight omnimodal model that third-party evaluator Artificial Analysis ranks as the highest-scoring open-weight model available. It handles text, image, video, and audio with a 1M token context window. Training took under six days and cost roughly $2.62M for the Pro variant; the 309B-parameter Flash version ran about $850K. Xiaomi is publishing the technical report, training environments, RL code, and over 7,000 reinforcement learning environments under MIT license. A phone company just open-sourced the recipe for frontier AI.
Xiaomi Trained a Trillion-Parameter Model for Less Than a Bay Area Condo
Xiaomi just dropped MiMo-V2.6, a 1.02-trillion-parameter open-weight omnimodal model that third-party evaluator Artificial Analysis ranks as the highest-scoring open-weight model available. It handles text, image, video, and audio with a 1M token context window. Training took under six days and cost roughly $2.62M for the Pro variant; the 309B-parameter Flash version ran about $850K. Xiaomi is publishing the technical report, training environments, RL code, and over 7,000 reinforcement learning environments under MIT license. A phone company just open-sourced the recipe for frontier AI.
Privacy Watch: Your Opt-Outs Are Being Quietly Ignored
The modern internet runs on a consent architecture that was always more theater than contract. You click "I agree" on a wall of text nobody reads, and somewhere a database writes a row that says you're fine with everything.
- The average person encounters roughly 2,000 tracking cookies per week, most planted by companies they couldn't name at gunpoint
- Browser-level protections have pushed advertisers toward fingerprinting — harder to detect, harder to block, and not covered by most cookie consent banners
- "Opt out" used to mean a company would stop collecting. Now it often means the setting moved, got renamed, or disappeared entirely
- The EU has levied over €4.2 billion in GDPR fines since 2018, and enforcement is accelerating year over year
The mood across the industry today is less resignation and more active resistance — from regulators, developers, and people building their own countermeasures.
The modern internet runs on a consent architecture that was always more theater than contract. You click "I agree" on a wall of text nobody reads, and somewhere a database writes a row that says you're fine with everything.
- The average person encounters roughly 2,000 tracking cookies per week, most planted by companies they couldn't name at gunpoint
- Browser-level protections have pushed advertisers toward fingerprinting — harder to detect, harder to block, and not covered by most cookie consent banners
- "Opt out" used to mean a company would stop collecting. Now it often means the setting moved, got renamed, or disappeared entirely
- The EU has levied over €4.2 billion in GDPR fines since 2018, and enforcement is accelerating year over year
The mood across the industry today is less resignation and more active resistance — from regulators, developers, and people building their own countermeasures.
AI Industry Moves: Monday Was a Very Big Day
