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

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/xiaomis-affordable-flagship-ai-leads-the-open-models-and-anthropic-says-claude-helped-get-it-there/>
> Published: 2026-09-22 11:42:11+00:00

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.

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