MiMo Code is now released and open-source

Post by re-thc » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

ignoramous wrote: post #39

Pxtl wrote: post #31

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Sounds like they slapped in a bunch of common plugins and released it as a product to promote the free-for-a-limited-time use of their new coding AI service.

> promote the free-for-a-limited-time use of their new coding AI service Not sure which "free" service you're referring to, but MiMo v2.5 Pro is plenty capable & (after its recent 70%+ price drop) one of the most affordable options in its class ( DeepSeek v4 Pro , MiniMax M3 , & Qwen 3.7 Plus ). I read somewhere that Labs are incentivized to implement custom harnesses because each model has its strengths, quirks, & b…

Post by mellosouls » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

mkl wrote: post #7

Much more information in the blog post this links to: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/blog/mimo-code-long-horizon

Post by djsamseng » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

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

Post by bigyabai » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

dannyw wrote: post #48

mythz wrote: post #15

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Because they want to optimize it for their models and don't want to be blocked by waiting for PRs to merge or be rejected. There's plenty of reasons to start your own fork that you have full agency of, as long as the OSS License is maintained anyone will be able to benefit from any new features they want to make use of.

This is the beauty of open source :) KHTML -> WebKit -> Blink is a good example.

Post by Pxtl » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 4:31 PM UTC

psychoslave wrote: post #38

Pxtl wrote: post #30

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The latter. It looks like it's meant to be a batteries-included agent to promote their free-for-a-limited time AI service that it connects to by default.

Ok, fair enough compared to the rest of the proeminent actors I guess, but quite confusing from dev point of view. Lately I started to experiment with model like Qwen2.5 on local. Good enough to ask simple question, but didn’t manage to do anything remotely close a agents I started to experiment with through Copilot.