Xiaomi officially launches MiMo-V2-Pro, confirming Hunter Alpha rumors
Xiaomi finally unveiled its massive trillion-parameter AI model, confirming community suspicions that the anonymous “Hunter Alpha” on OpenRouter was actually a stealth test.
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What is Hunter Alpha? OpenRouter model could actually be Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Pro (Confirmed)
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The company responded to the public backlash by pointing directly to its bootstrapped funding structure.
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Notion adds custom instructions to fix low-quality AI meeting notes
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Chinese AI models dominate new Hugging Face 2026 report
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