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Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops open-model rankings; Anthropic alleges Claude data siphoning
Xiaomi released the MiMo‑V2.6 lineup, with flagship MiMo‑V2.6‑Pro (1.02T params, 42B active) scoring 46 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index and claiming very low token costs; the company attributes gains to a major expanded reinforcement‑learning run and published an open RL toolkit, training framework, smaller models, and ~7,000 graded training tasks. Separately, Anthropic's threat report says Xiaomi appears in case GTG‑16008, alleging ~400,000 exchanges in March–April 2026 routed MiMo conversations through OpenClaw/OpenCode to Claude to extract training data as part of a broader set of ~190M exchanges across several labs.
KEY POINTS
- Xiaomi released the MiMo‑V2.6 lineup, with flagship MiMo‑V2.6‑Pro (1.02T params, 42B active) scoring 46 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index and claiming very low token costs; the company attributes gains to a major expanded reinforcement‑learning run and published an open RL toolkit, training framework, smaller models, and ~7,000 graded training tasks.
- Separately, Anthropic's threat report says Xiaomi appears in case GTG‑16008, alleging ~400,000 exchanges in March–April 2026 routed MiMo conversations through OpenClaw/OpenCode to Claude to extract training data as part of a broader set of ~190M exchanges across several labs.
- This matters because Xiaomi's release shifts the cost-performance frontier for openly available models while Anthropic's allegations raise potential data‑use, safety and IP concerns about how open models were trained.
WHY IT MATTERS
This matters because Xiaomi's release shifts the cost-performance frontier for openly available models while Anthropic's allegations raise potential data‑use, safety and IP concerns about how open models were trained.