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Xiaomi's affordable flagship AI leads the open models, and Anthropic says Claude helped get it there.

The DecoderIndependent reporting··Updated yesterday
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Xiaomi released and open-sourced its MiMo-V2.6 series of generative AI models, which includes two natively omnimodal models.

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Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro, an openly available AI model that tops open model rankings at a much lower price than competitors, trained with reinforcement learning that cost $2.62 million.

Why it matters: It shows an affordable flagship AI model can lead openly available models, though the model's success came with a catch involving Anthropic.

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