Credit: Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR
  • Xiaomi has open-sourced its omnimodal AI model capable of generating interactive 3D worlds, such as games, from text or visual prompts.
  • Xiaomi’s MiMO-V2.6 Pro is claimed to be the most capable open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index benchmark.
  • Along with open-sourcing it, Xiaomi is widely releasing desktop apps for Windows and Mac.

Smartphones and tablets are likely to come to mind when you first think of Xiaomi. If you’re savvy enough, you might as well know about the company’s diverse portfolio of home appliances and its recent ventures into the EV space. But it might surprise you to learn that Xiaomi is also developing its own frontier AI models to take on the likes of DeepSeek, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and the others.

Xiaomi has just released the latest version of its omnimodal AI models — MiMo-V2.6 Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash. These models can be used for textual, visual, and video-based applications, as well as for coding. While the MiMo-V2.6 Pro is Xiaomi’s most capable model, Flash is designed for lower costs and swift responses.