{"slug": "xiaomi-s-affordable-flagship-ai-leads-the-open-models-and-anthropic-says-claude", "title": "Xiaomi's affordable flagship AI leads the open models, and Anthropic says Claude helped get it there", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\nThe article [Xiaomi's affordable flagship AI leads the open models, and Anthropic says Claude helped get it there](https://the-decoder.com/xiaomis-affordable-flagship-ai-leads-the-open-models-and-anthropic-says-claude-helped-get-it-there/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/xiaomi-s-affordable-flagship-ai-leads-the-open-models-and-anthropic-says-claude", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/xiaomis-affordable-flagship-ai-leads-the-open-models-and-anthropic-says-claude-helped-get-it-there/", "published_at": "2026-09-22 11:42:11+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-22 11:53:35.776095+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-research", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Xiaomi", "MiMo-V2.6-Pro", "Anthropic", "Claude", "The Decoder"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/xiaomi-s-affordable-flagship-ai-leads-the-open-models-and-anthropic-says-claude", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/xiaomi-s-affordable-flagship-ai-leads-the-open-models-and-anthropic-says-claude.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/xiaomi-s-affordable-flagship-ai-leads-the-open-models-and-anthropic-says-claude.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/xiaomi-s-affordable-flagship-ai-leads-the-open-models-and-anthropic-says-claude.jsonld"}}