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Xiaomi has released and open-sourced MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, giving developers another potentially lower-cost option for building AI agents that can run longer tasks such as coding and workflow automation.
Both models support a 1-million-token context window, the company said. MiMo-V2.5-Pro is designed for complex agent and coding tasks, while MiMo-V2.5 is a native omnimodal model that supports text, images, video, and audio.
The release comes as agentic AI workloads are putting new pressure on enterprise AI budgets. These systems can burn through large numbers of tokens as they plan, call tools, write code, and recover from errors, making cost and deployment control increasingly important for developers.
By using the MIT License, Xiaomi said it is allowing commercial deployment, continued training, and fine-tuning without additional authorization. Tulika Sheel, senior vice president at Kadence International, said the MIT License can make it attractive. “It a