Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro Tops Open Model Rankings at $0.13 Per Task, But Anthropic Says It Used Claude to Get There
Xiaomi's new MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a 1.02 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model, now leads open-model rankings with a 46 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index while costing roughly $0.13 per task. Anthropic simultaneously accuses Xiaomi of funneling user conversations through Claude to train the model, part of a broader pattern the company calls illegal distillation.