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Xiaomi Prices Its Top AI Model at a Fifth of What Anthropic Charges

25 September 2026 · By · Wire by Fusion42

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25 September 2026

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AI Frontier Models

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China

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Xiaomi launched its MiMo-V2.6-Pro AI model priced at $0.435 per million input tokens, significantly cheaper than competitors Anthropic and OpenAI while matching or exceeding their performance. The model is open-weight and MIT licensed, with detailed training cost disclosures, putting pricing pressure on Western AI labs.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Frontier Models.

◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway

You face sharply lower compute costs from Xiaomi's open-weight AI model undercutting Western labs by a factor of five, forcing a rethink of price and model sourcing when selecting AI providers for production use.

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1 source · 25 Sep 2026

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