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

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro has taken the top spot among openly available AI models while drastically undercutting competitors on price, built on massive reinforcement learning that cost $2.62 million, according to The Decoder. Anthropic accuses Xiaomi of siphoning off training data from Claude to help achieve the result.

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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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