Xiaomi Claims an 80% Compute Cost Drop for Unreleased MiMo V3
TL;DR
AI models have long struggled to balance memory efficiency, compute cost and long context. Xiaomi and DeepSeek present new approaches: DeepSeek's V4.1 Flash shares information across layers to save memory, and Xiaomi's HySparse2 design is said to cut compute costs by 80 percent for the unreleased MiMo V3. Independent benchmarks are still missing.
Nauti's Take
An 80 percent drop in compute cost would be real progress for cheaper inference and longer context. The catch is that the model is unreleased and the figure comes from the maker itself.
Developers should treat it as promising but wait for independent benchmarks before building plans around it.
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