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

The DecoderSeptember 22, 2026en

With MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Xiaomi moves to the top of the openly available AI models and drastically undercuts the competition on price. What makes that possible is massive reinforcement learning that cost $2.62 million. But the success comes with a catch: Anthropic accuses the company of siphoning off training data from Claude. The article Xiaomi's affordable flagship AI leads the open models, and Anthropic says Claude helped get it there appeared first on The Decoder .

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