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China's NEW Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 AI Is FREE!

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

September 23, 2026

China's NEW Xiaomi MiMo V2.6 AI Is FREE!

Speakers Julian Goldie

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Mi just released Xiaomi MiMo V26 Pro and Flash. These are frontier level open source AI agents. So you got two omni modal models, advanced through scaled reinforcement learning.

Pro performs on par with Claude Opus 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol across most benchmarks. And Pro actually scores 46 on the Artificial Intelligence Index, which is pretty decent. Stronger coding as well. Computer use available. It's also open model weights. It's open and available and open source. That doesn't mean you host it, but it does mean that it's open source. So just bear that in mind, like it'd be a massive model to host. And also you can use it for free. So you can actually use it for free one week inside open code. So if you go to open code, just make sure that you've updated it. And then once you've done that, you can select MiMo V26. Just to be clear here, you can see MiMo V26 Flash 3 So you can use it for free along with MiMo V25 3 as well. That's pretty nice. So you can get access to Frontier model for free. And this is a new Chinese open source model as well. So if you're looking at the power of this as well in the benchmark, so you can see how it performs. We've already plugged it into our Agent OS and build some cool stuff with it as well. And it's pretty easy and simple to use too.

So if we go to MiMo code over here, you can see that we can switch between Pro and Flash, Quick Think and Deep Thinking, and we can use this system for free. Now, if you're wondering, okay, how does it perform? Well, you can actually see that we've got a bunch of stuff inside our workspace over here too, right? So you can see some of the dashboards that we've built, some of the cool stuff.

It's pretty nice for website design, as you can see right here, create a nice little design there. And then also, for example, you can see this kind of crazy warp thing that we built here as well, right? So the cool thing about this is you can use it inside an agentic operating system alongside all your AI agents. You can actually use the brain for free and then plug it into a misagent as well, it's open source, and it's frontier level too. So how do these models compare? What's the difference between them? Well, MiMo V26 Pro is their most powerful model, one trillion total parameters, 426 billion parameters active per token, and one million token context window.

I did notice that if you're using it with open code, the context window is actually a lot lower, but it's a free version. So you can see here 200,000 context window on there. And then also you can see MiMo V26 Flash over here, 309 billion parameters, 15 billion active per token, and one million token context window.

And it could build some fun stuff like you can see right here. This was actually built with MiMo Flash. So just bear in mind, you don't always have to use the Pro model. Even the Flash model can build decent stuff. This was built with Pro, as you can see right here, can build some cool 3D games just as a demo, so you can get a feel for how it codes, how it thinks, the logic behind it, etc. And then if you wonder, okay, how does this compare against Opus 5? So if we look at Deep, we've got MiMo 71.9 versus Opus 74 At Terminal Bench, MiMo is actually the best in the category, 89.9.

On Automation Bench, MiMo 53.1, and then Agents last exam as well. These are from OS World. It's pretty cheap as well. So 87 cents per million words out. Flash is 28, so pretty cheap to use. And then you've got Pro Ultra Speed as well, but that's pretty expensive, but up to 20x faster, which is insane. You can see the details on that right here. Again, 20x faster output speed, which is crazy. You can't get that on OpenCode on the free plan, but still pretty amazing that you can speed up that much. So the cool thing is about this, normally people, they're paying for the API, but with OpenCode, you can try it out for free, just test it, see how you think, etc.

It's a mixture of experts model, and you can also plug it into Hermes Agent as well. So for example, inside Hermes, we have MiMo Pro and MiMo Flash plugged in as a brain inside Hermes Agent as well. So the cool thing about that is, if I just need to switch to a free model, well, I can use Hermes Agent as a profile with Flash or Pro plugged in right there, and I can use those models for free with OpenCode as a brain. So we can have separate profiles for different agents. The same, for example, like Hermes, they just released Claude as a plugin inside Hermes Agent, which you couldn't do before. And we can just select Claude Opus now as a drop down inside our Agent OS system. So the cool thing about this world, like you don't need to pay frontier prices to get a frontier model, which is a big difference, and it's pretty easy and simple to use. Now you might wonder, okay, how does it perform on everything else? So if we go over to Goldie Bench over here, you can see if we scroll down, we'll have that on the leaderboards later as we tested out more. But yeah, pretty cool model. By the way, if you want a full Agent OS system and all our best tradings on AI automation, how to automate your business, get all your agents plugged in, like you can see right here, even use the MiMo code system. And we've got open code inside there. So if you want to use open code inside the Agent OS 2, we've got it down here so that you can use free models with the system. Then you can check out the AI Profit Boarding, link in the comment subscription, or go to the AI Profit boarding.com. So you get the full Agent OS zip file, the Pro or Flash systems as well. You've got every CLI you already pay for inside there. You can use it with free local models. We have four coaching calls a week as well. So you can basically ask questions, get help and support, and share your screen. And also inside the community, you can ask questions, and I personally answer them daily as well. So you get a thing you need to win with AI automation inside there. By the way, this does not win on Program Bench. So Opus is scoring much higher on Program Bench. Terminal Bench 4 as well. It's not really near Opus. Opus scoring 49 versus MiMo 34.9.

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