π RELEASES & LAUNCHES
- Xiaomi opens limited MiMo Desktop beta with two preview models
Xiaomi opened a limited beta of MiMo Desktop with two new preview models.- MiMo Desktop is aimed at professionals doing office work, design, coding, and multimodal creation.
- Approved users receive limited-time, free access to MiMo-X-Pro-Preview and MiMo-X-Flash-Preview.
- The app processes spreadsheets, images, videos, PDFs, and other files into editable documents, presentations, webpages, 3D models, and software projects.
- Interactive previews and browser control let users test generated interfaces and complete web-based tasks within the workflow.
π BENCHMARKS & EVALS
- UPDATE: DeepSeek releases V4 Flash Vision Exp, a 1M-context multimodal MoE
DeepSeek released V4 Flash Vision Exp, an open-weight multimodal MoE model.- For developers building multimodal agents, coding tools, and local inference systems.
- The experimental model adds image understanding to DeepSeek V4 Flash, with 284B total parameters, 13B active, and a 1M-token context window.
- It supports image inputs, tool calls, vLLM, SGLang, and DSpark speculative decoding.
- It scored 36.5 on ApexBench Pass@1, 35.0 on ZeroBench Pass@5, and 27.3 on Agentsβ Last Exam.
- The release adds multimodal agent capabilities while keeping text-agent benchmark performance broadly comparable to V4 Flash 0731.