MiMo V2.6 Flash on two Mac Studios scores 0.6605 vs 0.7909 in cloud

Enthusiasts ran Xiaomi's 309B-parameter MiMo-V2.6-Flash locally across two Mac Studios (M3 Ultra 96 GB and M5 Max 128 GB), splitting 48 layers and linking them over Thunderbolt 5 RDMA. On the Gauntlet benchmark the local vision run scored 0.6605 versus 0.7909 for Xiaomi's cloud endpoint.

• 309B-parameter MoE (15B active) takes 161 GB in a 4-bit MLX conversion
• Local: 0.6605 in 4h51m over 150 calls; cloud: 0.7909 in 2h08m
• Most of the gap is a ceiling from two 3D checks: 0.8309 vs 0.838 before it
• The vision tower lifted four checks from 0–0.5 to 1.0 and removed the 0.599 cap