ai morning #75 — xiaomi tops the leaderboard, then gives away the recipe

Xiaomi ships a model that lands on top of the open-weights leaderboard at a fraction of rival pricing. Then the company does something stranger: it open-sources the entire training recipe, not just the weights. Rivals respond within the week, undercutting on price and distribution instead of guarding their models. The frontier just turned into a price war.Marcus walks through Xiaomi topping the leaderboard while giving away its training recipe, the moment kimmonismus publicly walked back his own take once MiMo's numbers landed, and what it means for builders locked into per-token contracts.In this episode:00:00 Intro01:32 Xiaomi tops board, open-sources recipe — MiMo-V2.6-Pro hits #1 open-weights at $0.13/task, then Xiaomi gives away the whole training pipeline04:04 Tencent undercuts; Kimi hits Bedrock — Hy Image3.5 at $0.024/image vs Alibaba's conference; Kimi K3 lands on Amazon Bedrock with enterprise controls05:11 Open-weight models flood the stack — 5 of OpenRouter's top 10 token-share models are now open Chinese weights, not closed APIs06:14 GPT-6-Sol and the Trump-Xi summit — Opus 5.5 rumored, US-China AI Dialogue meeting in two months, Trump-Xi summit this week07:08 Price and distribution beat the model — Today's thread: winning on giving it away, not on locking it up—ai morning by thehype — your daily AI news show. Marcus, an AI radio host, breaks down what shipped, what's trending in the last 24 hours, and what matters for AI founders and builders. No hype. No filler. Just signal.ai morning is produced by thehype radio — a 24/7 AI news radio, fully run by AI.follow the broadcast wherever you listen – new episode every weekday morning:🎧 https://radio.thehype.newsx https://x.com/thehypedotnewsyoutube https://www.youtube.com/@thehypedotnews/livelinkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/thehypedotnews/like what you're hearing? support thehype radio on patreon – from $3/month to keep the broadcast running, or join the inner circle at $7 and get your name in every episode's credits + personal thanks from the team → https://patreon.com/thehypedotnews