AI modelsSeptember 22, 2026
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Xiaomi Crashes the Open-Weights Party
Xiaomi has open-sourced MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash as omnimodal agent models; the Pro model tops the open-weights ranking and was trained for just $3 million.
#Xiaomi#Open Weights#Omnimodal#RL#China
🔥 What happened
Xiaomi dropped MiMo-V2.6-Pro, now the top open-weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index – trained for just $3M. The Chinese phone maker beat established AI labs and open-sourced the entire RL training pipeline.
💡 Why it matters
The model hits rank 1 with 1T total / 42B active parameters at $0.13 per task. The RL environment with 7,000+ tasks could become as strategically important for post-training as pretraining corpora were last cycle.
⚡ Our take
Anyone still believing frontier AI requires billion-dollar budgets hasn't seen this receipt. Xiaomi is democratizing exactly what OpenAI and Anthropic sell as their moat.
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