--- title: "MiMo-V2.6 — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo_v2_6 as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # MiMo-V2.6 (🧠 Models) [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Topics](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md) › MiMo-V2.6 MiMo-V2.6 is 🧊 Cooling on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 19 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 8 points higher than 7 days before. Its last hype episode ran from Sep 22 to Sep 24 and peaked at 65 on Sep 22. First seen on Google News (RSS) · Sep 17 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days. Why this stage: left the hype 3 days ago; peak 65 on Sep 22. - **Stage:** 🧊 Cooling — past its peak, or just left the hype - **Hype score:** 18.6 / 100 · +17.7 in 1 day · +8.2 in 7 days - **In hype since:** not in hype now - **Peak, 30 days:** 64.6 on Sep 22, 2026 - **Category:** 🧠 Models - **Sources above normal:** 2 of 22 scoring it (2 independent families) - **Stories in 7 days:** 124 - **Share of voice:** 0.3% 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 | |---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:| | Hacker News | mentions | 3 | 0 | — | yes | 52% | | Reddit | posts | 3 | 0 | — | yes | 48% | | 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% | | GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% | | Google Trends (search interest) | search interest | 0 (Sep 25) | 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-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 3. [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 4. [MiMo-V2.6 distilled themselves into Qwen 9B!](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wmtjqu/) — Reddit (r/LocalLLaMA) · Sep 21 · score 186 · 39 comments 5. [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 6. [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 7. [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 8. [tonyd2wild/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-DGX-Spark-Recipe: MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL on 2x NVIDIA DGX Spark \(GB10\): vLLM TP2 + DFlash + vision/audio, fp8 KV 300K, four fixes for the stock image, measured baselines](https://github.com/tonyd2wild/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-DGX-Spark-Recipe) — GitHub (tonyd2wild) · Sep 22 · score 36 9. [MiMo-V2.6](https://www.producthunt.com/products/mimo-3) — Product Hunt (Artificial Intelligence) · Sep 22 10. ['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 11. [#Xiaomi greift mit MiMo-V2.6 Pro die Spitze der offenen Sprachmodelle an. Das System übertrifft Konkurrenten wie #DeepSeek und lockt mit extrem günstigen API-Preisen. https://winfuture.de/news,161456…](https://mastodon.social/@WinFuture/117315346089795800) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 0 comments 12. [Oubliez #Claude, #Gemini et #ChatGPT, #Xiaomi présente un #modèle d' #IA , #MiMo-V2.6 , qui permet de créer des #jeux #3D https://www.clubic.com/actualite-630793-oubliez-claude-gemini-et-chatgpt-xiao…](https://mastodon.social/@rod2ik/117316960401021907) — Mastodon (fediverse) (mastodon.social) · Sep 22 · score 2 · 0 comments ## Themes What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 110 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) — 13% of its stories - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 4.5% of its stories - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 3.6% of its stories - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 2.7% of its stories - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 1.8% of its stories ## Related topics - **Mentioned with:** [MiMo](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo.md) (40 stories), [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) (25 stories), [Qwen](https://abovethefog.app/topics/qwen.md) (13 stories), [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md) (12 stories), [LMArena](https://abovethefog.app/topics/lmarena.md) (7 stories), [GLM](https://abovethefog.app/topics/glm.md) (7 stories) ## Hype score, last 30 days | Day | Hype score | Stage | |---|---:|---| | Sep 27, 2026 | 18.6 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 26, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 25, 2026 | 23.1 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 24, 2026 | 25.5 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 23, 2026 | 35.8 | 🧊 Cooling | | Sep 22, 2026 | 64.6 | 🚀 Rising | | Sep 21, 2026 | 23.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 20, 2026 | 10.4 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 19, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 18, 2026 | 9.7 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 17, 2026 | 14.5 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 16, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 15, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 14, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 13, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 12, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 11, 2026 | 1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 10, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 9, 2026 | 1.1 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 8, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 7, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 6, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 5, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 4, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 3, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 2, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Sep 1, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 31, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 30, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet | | Aug 29, 2026 | 1.2 | 💤 Quiet | [Open MiMo-V2.6 in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#topic=mimo_v2_6) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo_v2_6) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)