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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 #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.

I have been using DeepSeek API within Claude Code. So far it has been legitimately superior to Claude, and Codex that I used before.

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

#32

How realistic is this: Chinese models incidentally slurps up some terms that lead them to finding unflattering words that you wrote about the CCP in a random journal entry, or maybe a social media csv export. You go to China one day and are denied entry due to what you said. Realistic or no? (yes i know the us is getting bad in re. to what you write online as well) Models hosted in China are a siren call that I don't…

This statement makes no sense, because you literally said the "US is getting bad". We already gave up all of our data, if you wrote something about the CCP you should already expect they know about it.

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

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post #30

How realistic is this: Chinese models incidentally slurps up some terms that lead them to finding unflattering words that you wrote about the CCP in a random journal entry, or maybe a social media csv export. You go to China one day and are denied entry due to what you said. Realistic or no? (yes i know the us is getting bad in re. to what you write online as well) Models hosted in China are a siren call that I don't…

https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/reported-french-scien... > CBP denies travelers entry because of anti-Trump comments

China won't deny entry for anti-Trump comments, guess I'll use MiMo

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

#36

interesting/funny: their off-peak rates apply 00:00-08:00 Beijing time, so nine-to-five for someone on the NA west coast :p

China has a population of 1.4B, US is 349M. 0-8 Beijing time is their off-peak? How is that funny, that's literally how timezones work?

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

#37

Since the 3rd party providers on openrouter have all converged on much higher prices in serving these models (both mimo and dsv4), there's obviously a question on how/why are they lowering the prices so much. It's possible they've finally integrated cheap(er) chinese chips. It's also possible they're just subsidising inference for real-world usage data. Interesting either way.

National security, training data

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

#38

How realistic is this: Chinese models incidentally slurps up some terms that lead them to finding unflattering words that you wrote about the CCP in a random journal entry, or maybe a social media csv export. You go to China one day and are denied entry due to what you said. Realistic or no? (yes i know the us is getting bad in re. to what you write online as well) Models hosted in China are a siren call that I don't…

This may be true about any models hosted by others than you.

At least the Xiaomi models are open weights and you can host them yourself, avoiding such concerns.

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

#39
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.

I hope so, but I don't know if they are in a position where they can offer these kinds of prices. They are already struggling with not losing a lot of money with their models, while chinese models can be independently hosted by inference providers at a profit already. We need to drive these prices down so AI doesn't become a thing for the few who can pay for expensive subscriptions.

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

#40
post #10

These and the Deepseek ones that were were cost reduced recently are perfectly capable models for the vast majority of light work and more. It's funny thinking the US companies are hiking prices and Chinese ones do the opposite, it's obviously an strategy, but pretty funny

How are these "capacity constrained" Chinese companies running inference without Hoppers and Blackwells ?

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/us-tech-execs-smuggled-nvidi...
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