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MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Re: MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Post by heroprotagonist »

AntonyGarand wrote: post #3
ComputerGuru wrote: post #2

Since the link is in Chinese: MiMo Code is Xiaomi’s AI agentic coding harness. “ MiMoCode is a terminal-native AI coding assistant. It can read and write code, run commands, manage Git, and use a persistent memory system to keep a deep understanding of your project across sessions while continuously improving itself.” GitHub link (English): https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code @dang might be better to link to the…

You can change the language via the header: The rightmost option is a language dropdown. It's a client-side change and doesn't impact the URL so users must manually change it each time they visit the site though

It's entirely possible, and even standard, to allow the browser to tell your site which language to respond in.

While ignorance of internationalization standards is a possibility, and the most likely cause.. I do wonder if it's a bit of a nudge to promote Chinese influence in the AI space.

Not that they really need to do that, China is already doing great (relatively, depending on criteria). The implosion of the US, the resulting brain drain and world shake-up has been very timely for their AI and other industries.

It's a very smart move for them to think longer term and start freezing out NVIDIA. Then they can take Taiwan purely for ideological concerns and not worry at all about the fabs blowing up in the process.

And they won't be dependent on foreign factories sitting on an island just off the shore of a superpower who's shown nothing below absolute resolve for decades towards the idea of conquering that island....

Re: MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Post by insumanth »

> MiMo Code is a terminal-based coding agent built by Xiaomi's MiMo team on top of OpenCode and open-sourced under the MIT license.

I think it is great that they built it on top of open code. Open Code harness is good and I want it to grow. Harness is very important and more projects use it, the more it is adopted.

Re: MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Post by baq »

tdesilva wrote: post #141

Good, coding harnesses should be open source and LLMs should be treated as commodities. Minimize switching costs for consumers, and let people understand how they're interacting with the context and the LLM outputs. The industry has been moving the wrong direction with Claude Code staying closed (despite multiple times leaking the source code!) and the open source Gemini CLI being deprecated in favor of closed source…

The jagged frontier of frontier models means treating tokens as fungible between providers is naive at the limit of capability, but also will work for solved problems far from the boundary. The problem is you need to keep evaluating all models to know where your use case lies on the frontier map.

As a concrete example, you’ll get very different results for the same prompt for sonnet, opus, fable, gemini, gpt 5.5, …

Re: MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Post by pmontra »

winstonp wrote: post #149
pmontra wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't known how Codex works, but we can set environment variables and point Claude CLI to deepseek. I think that before slashing prices they will slash those environment variables. After all they are not working to give a free TUI to deepseek and possibly to other competitors. But eventually yes, prices will go down or there will be an attempt at a regulatory capture.

Claude Code TUI is garbage. There's nothing worth protecting in there.

Honest question: what's garbage in that tool? I like that I can pair it with whatever editor I am using even if for 99% of the time I run it from inside emacs. I usually chat in the Claude window and it edits my files. I can also write a comment in the code, press a key and emacs will tell Claude to implement that comment. Simple needs, simple tool.

Re: MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Post by thekevan »

denysvitali wrote: post #46
tietjens wrote: post #45

This is my favorite of the Chinese models I have tried. I think it would be hard to know if I was using Opus of MiMo if blindfolded in many instances.

Yes, but this has nothing to do with MiMo (the model). This is what Claude Code is to Claude

Uh, what model do you think this is using?

Re: MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Post by miroljub »

Alifatisk wrote: post #92
gosukiwi wrote: post #81

Claude and Codex pricing will eventually have to come down, for most common coding tasks you don't need a super smart slow model but a smart-enough and very fast one.

I don't think many understand that Sonnet and even Haiku can probably accomplish their task, instead of them invoking a beast like Opus to tell them about todays weather.

And yet, MiMo and DeepSeek, even MiniMax, are way cheaper and arguably better, or way better than both Sonnet and especially Haiku.

While you can argue you are ready to pay 100-1000 times the price for Fable or Opus because you need those last 1-2% of edge, there's no valid reason to keep paying the obscene amounts of money for Sonnet and Haiku when alternatives exist.

Re: MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Post by TiredOfLife »

nailer wrote: post #80
emulio wrote: post #75

The installation method they officially propagate is dangerous. curl -fsSL https://mimo.xiaomi.com/install | bash This is usually a PoC (Proof of concept) way to install something on a temporary container or temporary VM, but not for production use during daily desktop operation. I was hoping their documentation would provide better installation instructions. But strangely, only for Windows do they recommend "npm ins…

We've had this discussion since Eazel Linux desktop popularized bash | curl in 2001. > npm install ... is a much better approach to managing installed packages. No. Until the upcoming version of npm is out, npm will also run arbitrary code. Almost all common installation tools run arbitrary code. Not doing that is sadly the exception for now.

I use npm 11.16.0 and it did this

npm warn allow-scripts Run `npm approve-scripts --allow-scripts-pending` to review, or `npm approve-scripts ` to allow.

Re: MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Post by elisbce »

tw04 wrote: post #150
tdesilva wrote: post #141

Good, coding harnesses should be open source and LLMs should be treated as commodities. Minimize switching costs for consumers, and let people understand how they're interacting with the context and the LLM outputs. The industry has been moving the wrong direction with Claude Code staying closed (despite multiple times leaking the source code!) and the open source Gemini CLI being deprecated in favor of closed source…

Why would a company do any of these things? What is their motivation for any of it? That’s like saying cloud providers should be commodity and should open source all of their platforms and eliminate egress fees so customers can easily leave at any point in time. That’s a charity, not a business model.

The familiar Chinese recipe for success: Always copy and imitate first, even if it is inferior, always make it cheaper or even free so that the original innovator will be burdened by brutal price competition and much bigger R&D costs and cannot keep up in the long run. Then the copycat will win in the endgame.

Re: MiMo Code is now released and open-source

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Post by knorker »

Are AI people using LLMs to name things? Just take a widely popular thing that already means something, capitalise it differently, and you're done.

Microsoft's LoRA (already a thing called LoRa) and now MiMo (already a thing called MIMO)

Maybe a classic Google search is not so bad, eh?

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