Two open-sourced models from china just blew claude opus 4.6 out of water. (Kimi 2.6 and xiaomi mimo v2.5 pro)
Summary
Chinese teams open-sourced Kimi 2.6 and Xiaomi MiMo v2.5 Pro, reportedly surpassing Claude Opus 4.6 benchmarks.
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