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Xiaomi Just Open-Sourced AI Models That Claim to Rival GPT-5.6

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Breaking news from the AI world, and this one's not your average headline. Xiaomi, yes the phone and gadgets company, just dropped two new AI models: MiMo-V2.6 Pro and MiMo-V2.6 Flash. Here's the interesting part: these are omnimodal models, meaning they handle text, images, and audio together, lik…

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  1. 2026-09-21 23:47 · DEV Community — AI
    Xiaomi Just Open-Sourced AI Models That Claim to Rival GPT-5.6

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