MIT-licensed Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro edges Opus 4.5
A Reddit post highlights Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.5-Pro, an MIT-licensed model in the MiMo family, and claims it narrowly outranks Claude Opus 4.5 on Arena’s coding-no-style-control leaderboard. The practical takeaway is that Xiaomi now appears to have an open model in frontier-code territory, but the margin is thin enough that this should be read as an encouraging benchmark signal rather than a settled verdict.
This is a meaningful benchmark story, but the rank gap is small enough that sample size and variance matter. The bigger strategic point is that Xiaomi now has an openly licensed model being discussed alongside closed frontier systems. The signal is strongest for coding and agentic workflows, not general chat comparisons.
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