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Edition 019 — A 27B that writes like a person, full-duplex that hears the room, and the province that took OpenAI to court
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL scales one mixed RL run across coding, agents and vision; StepFun's Step 5 Preview reopens the long-horizon agent question; a 149M sparse retriever, a 421M classifier that never speaks, an 8-step video LoRA, and a robot policy that learned from watching humans. Plus British Columbia takes OpenAI to court.