Xiaomi Shocks AI World with Open Model

🔥 What happened Xiaomi dropped MiMo-V2.6-Pro, an open-weight model that just topped the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 46 – beating Grok 4.6 (44) and Gemini 3.8 Flash (41). It's MIT-licensed and free on Hugging Face. 💡 Why it matters The model costs just $0.13 per Intelligence Index task – a fraction of proprietary rivals. Xiaomi trained it on 750,000 agent trajectories in under six days for $2.62M, setting a new efficiency benchmark. API pricing starts at $0.435 per million input tokens. ⚡ Our take Xiaomi isn't an AI company – and that's exactly the threat. A smartphone and EV maker just democratized frontier AI. Proprietary labs now have to justify their pricing.