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Wednesday, 23 September 2026

“Impressive level of openness”: Xiaomi goes way beyond the usual open-weight playbook with MiMo-V2.6

The New Stack 3 weeks ago 10 ● 6 sources

Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6, a trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal model, alongside a public record of its reinforcement-learning (RL) training runs. The RL run dashboard showed costs of $854,044 for MiMo-V2.6-Flash and $2,620,670 for MiMo-V2.6-Pro over a five-day period starting September 15. As a result, the model weights plus planned RL training environments and an end-to-end training framework are positioned to let other researchers inspect and build on the post-training process, not just download the weights.

After multiple deaths and injuries, NHTSA is investigating comma.ai

Ars Technica 3 weeks ago 10

NHTSA is investigating comma.ai aftermarket driver-assistance augmentation devices after crashes involving drivers using them. The agency says it knows of five crashes, including three deaths. The investigation could lead to recalls or other safety actions affecting these systems and their use on public roads.

Training data provider Snorkel AI raises $350M at $3.5B valuation

SiliconANGLE 3 weeks ago 49 ● 2 sources

Snorkel AI raised funding as an AI training data provider, disclosing a Series E round led by Insight and S32. The company raised $350 million at a $3.5B valuation. It will use the money to hire engineers, invest in AI safety, and develop open-source model evaluation benchmarks while expanding its data-as-a-service offerings for supervised and reinforcement learning.

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