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Verizon today announced a total investment of $70 million for Verizon AI Skills for America, a new initiative designed to empower job seekers, early career professionals, displaced workers, educators, and small businesses with the skills needed to thrive in the AI era and strengthen the U.S. economy.

A language model can write “let me double-check that” and still get the multiplication wrong. It can even write “wait, let me reconsider,” and land on a different wrong answer. Neither sentence is evidence of thinking. If the goal is solving the problem, only the number at the end counts.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is the central training paradigm for advancing large foundation models towards self-improvement. This report introduces the MiMo-V2.6 series, an omni-modal family that pushes the frontier of model intelligence by scaling RL compute. Prior to RL, we conduct mid-training on a broad multimodal corpus to provide ample exploration space, and build a solid…