Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Pro, its new 1T-parameter foundation model, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which the company says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 —  Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Luo characterizes as a “quiet ambush” on the global frontier.