Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 Ships Official Distill-Qwen-9B Variant, Echoing DeepSeek R1 Distills

victormustar · x · 2026-09-22

A developer highlighted that MiMo V2.6 is available as an official Distill-Qwen-9B variant, drawing comparisons to the legendary DeepSeek R1 Qwen/Llama distills — a strategy of transferring strong-model reasoning into smaller open-weight bases to make compact models reason well.

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