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Tracking the Cyber Capabilities of Cheap Open-Weight Models.

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Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro, an open-weight model with weak safety guardrails that is very cheap and performs well on cyber-related tasks. Evaluated on ExploitBench, it ranked 3rd out of 9 models.

Why it matters: A cheap open-weight model with weak guardrails performing well on cyber tasks could lower the cost of offensive cyber tooling.

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“TL;DR The Chinese company Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro , an open-weight model with weak safety guardrails. It is extremely cheap while performing well on cyber-related tasks.”
LessWrong, 28 Oct 2026, 22:14.

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