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Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open-weights index under an MIT licence — and ships the RL code, which is the part that matters
On 21-22 September 2026 Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro: 1.02T total parameters, 42B active, natively omnimodal, 1M context, MIT licence, $0.435 input and $0.87 output per million tokens. It scores 46 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index — the highest open-weights result, level with Grok 4.7 at xHigh effort, which shipped the day before at $2/$6 with no weights. The score is not the news. Xiaomi also published the technical report, the RL training environments and the training code, one day after Alibaba moved a flagship image model to a research-only licence.
Read story →Alibaba's best open image model yet is the first one you cannot ship — Qwen-Image-2.1 drops Apache 2.0 for a research-only licence
Qwen-Image-2.1 landed on Hugging Face and ModelScope on 20 September 2026: a 7B DiT with native 2048x2048 output, RGBA transparency and unified generate-and-edit, replacing a 20B predecessor. It is smaller, cheaper to run and better — and it ships under the Qwen Research License Agreement, non-commercial only, where every previous Qwen-Image release was Apache 2.0. The weights are downloadable and the model is not a supply option. What that tells buyers about open-weight roadmaps.
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