--- title: "MiMo — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # MiMo (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › MiMo MiMo is 🔥 Hot on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 31 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 28 points higher than 7 days before. It entered the hype on Sep 27, and today’s score is the episode’s peak. First seen on Reddit · Sep 24 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the run-up to this hype episode. Why this stage: in hype for 1 day; 31 vs peak 31 on Sep 27. - **Stage:** 🔥 Hot — in hype and holding up - **Hype score:** 30.8 / 100 · +17.3 in 1 day · +28.2 in 7 days - **In hype since:** Sep 27, 2026 (1 day) - **Peak, 30 days:** 78.7 on Sep 22, 2026 - **Category:** 🧠 Models - **Sources above normal:** 3 of 22 scoring it (3 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 198 - **Share of voice:** 0.4% of the radar’s attention in 7 days ## Where the attention comes from “Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0. | Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Reddit | posts | 10 | 1 | 5.5× | yes | 34% | | Hacker News | mentions | 3 | 0 | — | yes | 32% | | LMArena (leaderboard) | trending | 0.8 (Sep 26) | 0.4 | 1.3× | yes | 27% | | Google Trends (search interest) | search interest | 5.8 (Sep 25) | 2.9 | 1.7× | no | 5.6% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | tag uses | 2 | 0 | — | no | 2.2% | | Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% | ## Stories behind it 1. [mimo-v2.6-flash enters the text Arena leaderboard at #38](https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text) — LMArena (leaderboard) (xiaomi) · Sep 25 · score 4,067 2. [MiMo-V3 is getting a new architecture. The core of it, HySparse2, is out today.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wo7mr6/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 23 · score 327 · 50 comments 3. [zouyuxuan122/dsh-our-free-model: 在 dsh 里装上这个插件即可，无需登录、注册或填 API Key，就能使用包括 Muse Spark 1.3、MiMo V2.6 在内的前沿模型——完全免费，不限量。 All you do is install this plugin in dsh: no login, no sign-up, no API key — the frontier models are just there, Muse Spark 1.3 and MiMo V2.6 among them. Completely free, with no usa](https://github.com/zouyuxuan122/dsh-our-free-model) — GitHub (zouyuxuan122) · Sep 24 · score 350 4. [MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796660) — Hacker News (artificialanalysis.ai) · Sep 22 · score 166 · 68 comments 5. [MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796660) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (artificialanalysis.ai) · Sep 22 · score 158 · 63 comments 6. [AI #187: Coming Into Play](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-187-coming-into-play) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 24 · score 56 · 39 comments 7. [MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/bartowski/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF) — Hugging Face Hub (trending + orgs) (bartowski) · Sep 21 · score 102 8. [Xiaomi debuts open-weight omnimodal models MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash; Pro allegedly performs “on par with Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks”](https://www.techmeme.com/260921/p52#a260921p52) — Techmeme (Xiaomi) · Sep 21 · score 5 · 17 comments 9. [I have to say, MiMo v2.5 and MiMo v2.5 Pro are pretty decent. These can't beat GLM 5.3 tho. Anyone have these two fighting? #AI #LLM #CodeCommand #Xiaomi #LargeLanguageModels #OpenCode #OpenRouter #M…](https://mastodon.social/@darkghosthunter/117311980595352449) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 22 · score 4 · 2 comments 10. [MiMo v2.6-Pro - Model Request](https://forum.cursor.com/t/mimo-v2-6-pro-model-request/172691) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (Cursor Forum) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 0 comments 11. [MiMo-V2.6](https://www.producthunt.com/products/mimo-3) — Product Hunt (Artificial Intelligence) · Sep 22 12. ['Better than DeepSeek': Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro debuts as the top open weights model in the world alongside cheaper V2.6-Flash](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi7AFBVV95cUxPbk5wYXNlUU0zTGZIT3J4XzdCWVdna29yZ1FiNFpWcm5yemZ0S2ExQlBCVm1TUzZpRHo4anVHNXFWajlSbWxEeWhGWlIzV0gwbUhqQWtfTldSMU40RkFzUDRtVTRocDc1WVZORUVEbXlvV2FxR2JuQkN5Yi16OS1mbG85c0VEb0lEdEQtLWYyTWhERUVhQkozUkF5Q1hBS0tkR0xtbGJWenhKUGFkNWxlRjQ2SmYwTTFKSWphOUw5WFNzVG1WVEwtdUNELUw1NlJvTjdDbmZHNkZ0SVZJWGFQUUxRclFyaXlla2ZIMw?oc=5) — Tech press (RSS) (venturebeat.com) · Sep 22 ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 149 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes): - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 97% of its stories - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 14% of its stories - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 6.7% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 5.4% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 4% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 4% of its stories ## Related topics - **Mentioned with:** [MiMo-V2.6](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo_v2_6.md) (40 stories), [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md) (26 stories), [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) (25 stories), [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md) (20 stories), [LMArena](https://abovethefog.app/topics/lmarena.md) (10 stories), [Hunyuan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hunyuan.md) (4 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 30.8 | 🔥 Hot | | Sep 26, 2026 | 13.4 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 25, 2026 | 15.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 24, 2026 | 26.3 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 23, 2026 | 40.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 22, 2026 | 78.7 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 35 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 20, 2026 | 2.6 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 0.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 4.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 27.3 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 16, 2026 | 9.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 2.8 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 0.3 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 1.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 0.9 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 2.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 0.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 1.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | [Open MiMo in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=mimo) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)