Xiaomi unveils open‑weight omnimodal MiMo‑V2.6 Pro and Flash, with Pro claimed to rival Opus 5 and GPT‑5.6 Sol on most agent benchmarks
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Xiaomi has released open‑weight omnimodal models MiMo‑V2.6 Pro and Flash, with the Pro model claimed to match top‑tier models on most agent benchmarks.
Xiaomi has unveiled the MiMo‑V2.6 series, releasing two open‑weight omnimodal models—MiMo‑V2.6 Pro and MiMo‑V2.6 Flash—through its AI Studio, MiMo apps, public API and OpenRouter. The company describes the models as “frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public” and makes the code freely available for anyone to run or fine‑tune.
MiMo‑V2.6 Pro is positioned as Xiaomi’s most capable model to date. In Xiaomi’s own testing the Pro variant performs “on par with Claude Opus 5 and GPT‑5.6 Sol across most agent benchmarks” and achieved a score of 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest rating recorded for any open‑source model. That places it alongside the newly released Grok 4.7 and well ahead of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (score 39), while still trailing the top closed‑source systems. The score also marks a 20‑point leap from the previous MiMo‑V2.5‑Pro (score 26). MiMo‑V2.6 Flash, by contrast, targets a balance of intelligence, efficiency and cost, offering a lighter footprint for developers who need multimodal capabilities without the compute budget of the Pro tier.
The release matters because it narrows the gap between open‑source and proprietary large‑language models in the rapidly expanding multimodal arena. By open‑sourcing a model that can match leading closed systems on agent‑oriented tasks, Xiaomi gives researchers, startups and enterprises—particularly in the Nordics, where open AI ecosystems are prized—a powerful new tool for building vision‑language agents, code assistants and other cross‑modal applications.
What to watch next are independent benchmark results and community‑driven refinements that could validate Xiaomi’s claims. Adoption metrics from AI Studio and OpenRouter will indicate how quickly the models gain traction, while further releases from competing Chinese firms such as Grok and DeepSeek will shape the open‑weight leaderboard. The next few months should reveal whether MiMo‑V2.6 can sustain its early lead and influence the broader push toward publicly accessible, high‑performance AI.
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