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Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2.5 open omnimodal models under MIT licence

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Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.5 under the MIT licence, a native omnimodal model that understands text, images, video and audio, built on its MiMo-V2-Flash backbone with a hybrid attention design that cuts key-value cache storage to about a sixth.

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A phone maker released open omnimodal models under the MIT licence, adding to China’s open-model releases.

When
27 Apr 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0203
Where
China
Who
Xiaomi

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Hugging Face. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0203: “Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2.5 open omnimodal models under MIT licence.” wheresthe.ai, 27 Apr 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-xiaomi-mimo-v2-5-omnimodal-2026-04/ (source: Hugging Face: XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.5).

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