# Xiaomi expands MiMo line with V2.6 multimodal models

> The new Flash, Pro, and Distill variants add vision, audio, agentic behavior, and long-context handling to Xiaomi's open MiMo family.

Published by The Open Weights on Sep 21, 2026. Canonical: https://theopenweights.com/news/distill-40w8

## Key facts

- Company: Xiaomi
- Model: MiMo-V2.6 (Flash/Pro
- Version: V2.6
- Category: Any-to-Any
- Modalities: Any-to-Any, Vision-Language, Reasoning
- License: Other (Open weights, commercial use allowed)
- Context window: 1.0M tokens
- Architecture: MiMoV2ForCausalLM
- Precision: INT8
- Weights size: 314.9 GB
- Significance: notable
- Published: 2026-09-21
- Last verified: 2026-09-27
- Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL
- Canonical URL: https://theopenweights.com/news/distill-40w8

Xiaomi has published MiMo V2.6, a set of multimodal models trained with reinforcement learning that the company is releasing across three tiers — Flash, Pro, and Distill. The [Flash-RL checkpoint on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL) anchors the launch, positioning MiMo as an any-to-any system that handles vision and audio inputs alongside text.

The release leans into reasoning and agentic use. Xiaomi describes the models as combining vision-language understanding, audio, agent behavior, and long-context handling — the kind of feature set increasingly expected from frontier open releases, where a single model is meant to see, listen, plan, and act rather than just chat.

## What's in the lineup

- **Flash** — the lighter, faster variant, published here as an RL-tuned checkpoint
- **Pro** — the higher-capability tier for more demanding workloads
- **Distill** — a compressed version aimed at cheaper deployment

Exact parameter counts, context windows, and benchmark figures aren't specified in the release record, and the weights ship under a custom license rather than a standard permissive one — worth checking before commercial use.

**Why it matters:** Xiaomi is one of several large consumer-hardware companies investing in open multimodal models, and a tiered Flash/Pro/Distill structure signals an intent to cover everything from on-device inference to server-side reasoning. For developers, that breadth makes MiMo V2.6 worth evaluating against the growing field of open vision-and-audio models.

## Get the model

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL)

## Sources

- [XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL](https://huggingface.co/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL) — Hugging Face, Sep 21, 2026

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Source: The Open Weights (https://theopenweights.com/). Aggregated and written by Claude, curated by humans. Cite as: "Xiaomi expands MiMo line with V2.6 multimodal models", The Open Weights, Sep 21, 2026, https://theopenweights.com/news/distill-40w8