True Positive Weekly #180: Xiaomi's MIT-licensed MiMo-V2.6, physicist-style LLM pruning, OpenHands
burkov · x · 2026-10-01
Issue #180 of Burkov's True Positive Weekly rounds up: Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 (MIT license, frontier intelligence, all modalities); Hugging Face on UK AISI and EvalEval making benchmark results reproducible; Google on agentic AI for securing infra code and generative UI for teachers; physicist-style LLM pruning as an Ising optimization problem; tools OpenHands and ProRL; regularized recursive self-improvement research; and a new system design handbook.
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