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Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

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Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

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Post by irthomasthomas »

Insane. 3 points behind opus on the artificialanalysis index.

Mimo cost ~$400 at the old price, so about $40 today. Opus cost ~$5000

That's over 100x cheaper, and just 3 points behind.

I can't wait to experiment with an llm consortium of 100 deepseek and mimo models. Crazy times.

Shut up and take my m̶o̶n̶e̶y̶ data!

Edit: Gemini on google search told me I could write strikethrough text on hn using . Mimo told me it was unsupported and then went on to list some tags that are supported, like bold. I tried copy pasting the word in strikethrough from a word processor but it lost the format. I ended up using mimo in an agent shell wrapper to produce it, and copy pasting from the terminal worked for some reason.

Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

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Post by drcongo »

dyauspitr wrote: post #34
rjhy2020 wrote: post #2

OK. Google was just killed. How is it possible to reduce the price by 99%??????? This is crazy

State backed loss leaders.

I think this is probably correct based on the way state investment into the Chinese EV market has been working - fund a whole bunch of them and let them fight it out to be one of the few brands that will have the longevity. It's pretty brutal with the cars.

Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

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Post by dzonga »

as someone from the 3rd world - this is pleasant - even 3rd world countries will have affordable "A.I" access via Chinese models.

as someone who now lives & has lived in the west for the majority of their adult life - yeah the US western models r fucked n the crazy valuations of the A.I labs - which also filters down to the economy - since all money instead of being put to productive use is being wasted on this shit. hell electricity bills are up - cz datacenters need power. the current crooks in power don't believe in clean energy.

Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

#64

Post by noman-land »

irthomasthomas wrote: post #61

Insane. 3 points behind opus on the artificialanalysis index. Mimo cost ~$400 at the old price, so about $40 today. Opus cost ~$5000 That's over 100x cheaper, and just 3 points behind. I can't wait to experiment with an llm consortium of 100 deepseek and mimo models. Crazy times. Shut up and take my m̶o̶n̶e̶y̶ data! Edit: Gemini on google search told me I could write strikethrough text on hn using . Mimo told me it w…

What did MiMo say?

Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

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Post by irthomasthomas »

noman-land wrote: post #64
irthomasthomas wrote: post #61

Insane. 3 points behind opus on the artificialanalysis index. Mimo cost ~$400 at the old price, so about $40 today. Opus cost ~$5000 That's over 100x cheaper, and just 3 points behind. I can't wait to experiment with an llm consortium of 100 deepseek and mimo models. Crazy times. Shut up and take my m̶o̶n̶e̶y̶ data! Edit: Gemini on google search told me I could write strikethrough text on hn using . Mimo told me it w…

What did MiMo say?

Says its not supported and lists a few tags that are, like bold

Does this work: s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶

Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

#66

Post by fgonzag »

bel8 wrote: post #52
wg0 wrote: post #29

That's deliberate. US AI companies have no chance of recouping even fraction of their valuations. PS: Have not tried this but Deepseev4 Flash (not even Deepseekv4 Pro version) with set to "high" has pretty much Claud Opus 4.7 level of capabilities and is lightening fast and dirty cheap. Hours and hours of conversation barely costs few cents.

DeepSeek Flash on high (not max) is a freak of nature indeed. Very disproportionate intelligence-to-cost ratio. I'm leveraging this temporary anomaly and using it as my coding workhorse.

The weights are open and when prices settle down again will be runnable with less than 10k of hardware.

I can easily run it in a 8 bit quant with the 4 x 48GB Radeon Pro W7900 GPUs I snagged for 2k each before the memory squeeze.

A 158B parameter model, especially in an architecture as efficient as DS4 is not that hard to drive currently if you got in before the craze, and will be relatively easy to drive with future hardware generations.

Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

#67

Post by surgical_fire »

dyauspitr wrote: post #33
hootz wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't be mistaken for someone like, ugh... Anthropic and OpenAI...

This sort of pressure will force them to though.

They can't afford it. OpenAI and Anthropic bleed money and are desperate for an IPO, that they can get some extra mileage.

Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

#68

Post by surgical_fire »

lostmsu wrote: post #59
admiralrohan wrote: post #47

Everyone already said what I wanted to say. That all US companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, MS Copilot) have increased price recently while Chinese companies (Deepseek, Xiaomi) are reducing price. The question is how they are managing to do so? They are supposed to struggle due to chip sanctions. Secondly, why now? The US companies were supposed to subsidize too but now they are unable to keep up. Everyone going to…

The state of the art models (mostly GPT 5.5, but also Gemini and Claude) are better so they cost more. Qwen 3.7 Max is their only direct competition and it is not any cheaper.

Are they?

I have been using DeepSeek, and I am finding it better than Claude or Codex, to be honest.

I don't see myself going back.

Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

#69

Post by andrekandre »

drcongo wrote: post #62
dyauspitr wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

State backed loss leaders.

I think this is probably correct based on the way state investment into the Chinese EV market has been working - fund a whole bunch of them and let them fight it out to be one of the few brands that will have the longevity. It's pretty brutal with the cars.

  > let them fight it out
yep, from what i hear, the govt makes sure there is intense local competition in the market so it produces a few really good companies that survive... its kind ironic considering what is going on with mono/oligopolies over here...

Re: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

#70

Post by kingstnap »

rjhy2020 wrote: post #2

OK. Google was just killed. How is it possible to reduce the price by 99%??????? This is crazy

The reduction is in cached inputs. I've commented about this before but many labs, except Deepseek and Xaomi now, absolutely scam you for cached reads.

You are basically paying out the nose for a few seconds of VRAM residence if you are giving significant money for cache reads.

The very nature of autoregressive language modeling is that every single output token produced "reads" the cache.

So in principle the price floor for a cache hit is the flat cost of 1 output token.

Now in reality it has to be more than that because you are occupying VRAM with the cache that forces out other users. But it can still be really cheap.

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