Xiaomi's MiMo AI Models Are Making the Pricing Conversation Very Uncomfortable
Xiaomi’s MiMo AI Models Are Making the Pricing Conversation Very Uncomfortable TL;DR Xiaomi has entered the AI model race with two models — MiMo-V2-Flash and MiMo-V2-Pro — and they’re undercutting Western competitors on price by a significant margin. MiMo-V2-Flash claims the #1 spot among open-source models on SWE-Bench, a key coding benchmark, starting at just $0.10 per million input tokens. The community on Reddit is noticing, and the conversation is getting uncomfortable for established players. If Xiaomi’s pricing holds, it could reshape how developers and businesses think about AI API costs. ...