API Review Summary (October 2026) Attribute Value Developer Xiaomi Release Date September 21, 2026 Model Type Reasoning model (open weights) Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 30 — ranks #3 of 21 models in AA’s “Large” (>150B parameter) class, where the class median is 23 Speed 53.4 output tokens/sec (class median: 73.9 t/s) Latency (TTFT) 3.16s (class […]

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the kind of model that gets a pricing guide worth reading: it combines open weights, a 1M-token context window, and pricing that undercuts the typical large open-weight reasoning model. At listed rates of $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens, it comes in below the median pricing Artificial Analysis […]

From 19.0 to 71.9 on DeepSWE — that’s the jump Xiaomi reports between MiMo-V2.5-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Pro, its new flagship, on real-world software engineering tasks. That puts it, on Xiaomi’s own published figures, alongside Claude Opus 5 (74.0) and GPT-5.6 Sol (73.0) on a benchmark designed to test repository-level coding rather than toy problems. Built by […]

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next was released on August 26, 2026. The same day, SGLang announced day-0 support, built with the Qwen, NVIDIA and AMD teams, and shipped a dedicated container image. vLLM served the model from its own dedicated image while the architecture-support work was still being merged. llama.cpp, the engine most people use to run models on […]

Jev had competitors before it was even a month old. TypeSafe launched it on September 15, and by the first week of October OpenAI had announced a Decisions API, Cloudflare and AWS had shipped open-weight decision models, and GitHub had a shelf of open-source Jev alternatives: Laya, OpenJev, Kev, AnyJev. We ran Jev and the […]