Xiaomi Releases Open-Source Mimo-V2-6 Model Distilled From Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Xiaomi Releases Open-Source Mimo-V2-6 Model Distilled from Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Xiaomi released Mimo-V2-6, a 6-billion-parameter open-weight language model created through efficient distillation from Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It delivers strong performance in reasoning, math, coding, and multilingual tasks while requiring modest hardware. The transparent release includes full methodology details, offering developers a capable, locally deployable alternative to closed AI systems.

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 Tops Open AI Charts Amid Anthropic Distillation Claims

Xiaomi's new MiMo-V2.6 model just topped the global open-weights AI leaderboard, built for roughly $2.62 million. The release came less than two weeks after Anthropic accused Xiaomi of routing over 400,000 conversations through Claude to help train it, one of seven Chinese labs named in Anthropic's latest threat report.

Anthropic Disrupted Xiaomi’s Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaign – and the Open-Weight Ecosystem Should Pay Attention

For years, model distillation operated in the shadows of API logs and proxy traffic – a cat-and-mouse game of rate limits and pattern matching. That changed in September 2026, when Anthropic’s threat intelligence team published Case GTG-16008, detailing a systematic campaign by Xiaomi to harvest data from Claude to train its own models. This was […]

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open models after a $2.62m reinforcement-learning run

Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the top-ranked open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, which scores it 46 and ranks it first of the 114 open weights models it tracks. Xiaomi says the reinforcement-learning run behind it took under six days and cost about $2.62 million, and it published the weights on Hugging Face on ... Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open models after a $2.62m reinforcement-learning run The post Xiaomi's MiM…