> Xiaomi confirming that weights for their newer V2.5 Pro model are dropping soon

This has already happened.

I have downloaded both the big Pro model and the smaller but multimodal MiMo-V2.5.

https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.5-Pro

https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.5

https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.5-Pro-Base

https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.5-Base

The download of MiMo-V2.5-Pro takes 963 GB, while that of MiMo-V2.5 takes 295 GB.

For comparison, the download of Kimi-K2.6 takes 555 GB.