Claude and Codex pricing will eventually have to come down, for most common coding tasks you don't need a super smart slow model but a smart-enough and very fast one.
porphyra 22 minutes ago [-]
Pretty neat that you can just install it and start using it (at a Sonnet 4.6-level model) without needing to sign in or pay.
Typically, Chinese websites are a big pain to log in or sign up because they require a +86 phone number due to legal reasons. Being able to use it without having to make an account is amazing for friction reduction. I could probably even just install it onto new machines to help with set up.
I wonder how they are gonna detect and block abuse though?
ProofHouse 8 minutes ago [-]
So funny I have noticed how terrible the signup is on all these Chinese models, companies etc. Always wonder why it is such an easy process. Like QQ, Tencent etc demos Ive seen past year
ComputerGuru 2 hours ago [-]
Since the link is in Chinese: MiMo Code is Xiaomi’s AI agentic coding harness.
“ MiMoCode is a terminal-native AI coding assistant. It can read and write code, run commands, manage Git, and use a persistent memory system to keep a deep understanding of your project across sessions while continuously improving itself.”
You can change the language via the header: The rightmost option is a language dropdown.
It's a client-side change and doesn't impact the URL so users must manually change it each time they visit the site though
ComputerGuru 2 hours ago [-]
Thanks, I missed that on first glance and did manual translation.
Not sure why my iPhone shows an option to translate website but all the destination languages to pick from (I have multiple languages installed), including English, are greyed out. iPhone does support translating from Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), and the button to translate website isn’t greyed out like it is for unsupported/unrecognized languages. Might be an iOS 27 bug, because it is working on other websites?
ramon156 2 hours ago [-]
Why not persist it through a query param? Or a lang param for that matter
danesparza 1 hours ago [-]
Feels like maybe you're just noticing this because it defaults to Chinese. Is that true?
How many sites do this but you don't notice because they default to English?
psychoslave 32 minutes ago [-]
Personally, none, I’m not English native. I didn’t notice the locale switch, but mostly because the look of the website was so beautiful I didn’t pay attention to menus. I wonder if ideograms keeps looking so beautiful once you learned to decode them. I never found Latin script to be particularly beautiful, and to this date Arabic script remains my favorite one in term of esthetic (I can’t read Arabic ever).
klausa 21 minutes ago [-]
This is not exactly what you’re asking about, but I started learning Japanese when I was in the middle of playing Cyberpunk 2077 (for unrelated reasons); and I gotta tell you; realizing that 98% of the Japanese text everywhere in the game was just “hotel” or “karaoke” definitely took away some charm from it.
rplnt 1 hours ago [-]
But what if you have English configured as a preferred language? Isn't that what it's for? Wouldn't it make sense for a website to respect that (when available)? I hate that google.com doesn't and defaults to random languages based on IP.
psychoslave 4 minutes ago [-]
Web standard often give great grounds to leverage on. Modern stacks often really poorly work with a lot its surface and reinvente half baked bespoke alternatives.
sheept 1 hours ago [-]
Language support was probably an afterthought since their target audience all read Chinese
GodelNumbering 1 hours ago [-]
> MiMoCode is built as a fork of OpenCode. It keeps all core OpenCode capabilities (multiple providers, TUI, LSP, MCP, plugins) and adds persistent memory, intelligent context management, subagent orchestration, goal-driven autonomous loops, compose workflows, and self-improvement via dream/distill.
From github
Pxtl 1 hours ago [-]
Sounds like they slapped in a bunch of common plugins and released it as a product to promote the free-for-a-limited-time use of their new coding AI service.
ignoramous 1 hours ago [-]
> promote the free-for-a-limited-time use of their new coding AI service
Not sure which "free" service you're referring to, but MiMo v2.5 Pro is plenty capable & (after its recent 70%+ price drop) one of the most affordable options in its class (DeepSeek v4 Pro, MiniMax M3, & Qwen 3.7 Plus). I read somewhere that Labs are incentivized to implement custom harnesses because each model has its strengths, quirks, & blindspots (like Qwen forking Gemini CLI)?
re-thc 20 minutes ago [-]
> like Qwen forking Gemini CLI
That was a good call. Gemini CLI is dead.
cyanydeez 1 hours ago [-]
So, basically the same thing silicon valley has been doing for the past half decade.
This is usually a PoC (Proof of concept) way to install something on a temporary container or temporary VM, but not for production use during daily desktop operation.
I was hoping their documentation would provide better installation instructions. But strangely, only for Windows do they recommend "npm install -g @mimo-ai/cli," which is a much better approach to managing installed packages.
For Mac/Linux, they have the strange recommendation to use the dangerous "curl <some_url> | bash." Quote:
> (for the best experience, Mac users are strongly encouraged to use iTerm or the VSCode Terminal)
> curl -fsSL https://mimo.xiaomi.com/install | bash
We've had this discussion since Eazel Linux desktop popularized bash | curl in 2001.
> npm install ... is a much better approach to managing installed packages.
No. Until the upcoming version of npm is out, npm will also run arbitrary code. Almost all common installation tools run arbitrary code. Not doing that is sadly the exception for now.
mrnotcrazy 6 minutes ago [-]
Isn't Unlimited Context pretty difficult to promise? What exactly do they mean, could I just have two agents locked into a TTRPG back and forth forever?
psychoslave 3 minutes ago [-]
Do you plan to ask them some master plan to live forever?
I've worked a lot with MiMo in my project that pits LLMs against each other in games (clankerfights.ai). It is a very very good model for the price. MiniMax I'd say is smarter, but MiMo really touches near pareto frontier.
tietjens 52 minutes ago [-]
This is my favorite of the Chinese models I have tried. I think it would be hard to know if I was using Opus of MiMo if blindfolded in many instances.
denysvitali 49 minutes ago [-]
Yes, but this has nothing to do with MiMo (the model).
This is what Claude Code is to Claude
djsamseng 14 minutes ago [-]
I found it relevant and actually just the information I was looking for. Having a highly recommended model behind the tool makes it worth further investigation.
dannyw 49 minutes ago [-]
MiMo Code is not a model, it's a harness like Claude Code / OpenCode / Codex (which is still open source, Apache 2.0, btw).
macOS binary (mimocode-darwin-arm64.zip ) seems broken: "“mimo” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash."
haunter 4 minutes ago [-]
No, you are just experiencing the best of Apple. How dare you download non notarized binaries on your own computer? Do you have a license for that?
Terminal > sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine > Drag and drop the app into terminal > enter and enter your password
pmdlt 2 hours ago [-]
"MiMoCode is built as a fork of OpenCode."
Why not just contribute to OpenCode instead of creating a clone :/
mythz 2 hours ago [-]
Because they want to optimize it for their models and don't want to be blocked by waiting for PRs to merge or be rejected.
There's plenty of reasons to start your own fork that you have full agency of, as long as the OSS License is maintained anyone will be able to benefit from any new features they want to make use of.
dannyw 46 minutes ago [-]
This is the beauty of open source :) KHTML -> WebKit -> Blink is a good example.
bigyabai 13 minutes ago [-]
KHTML is dead now, though. It was basically embraced, extended and extinguished by Apple and Google, who both wanted to take away the leverage of the community.
Today, legacy KHTML maintainers are boxed-out of upstream decisions that might prevent Manifest v2 from swirling down the drain. I'd argue the story isn't very beautiful anymore.
konart 2 hours ago [-]
To go a different path perhaps? You can't expect that all your ideas will land into a main repo and you really want to implement your vision while using a sane base.
Opencode sits on a ton of important PR's, so they didn't want to wait. Everybody else switched to omp (oh my pi) already.
postalrat 1 hours ago [-]
OpenCode can merge in all their changes if they want.
dartharva 29 minutes ago [-]
Could just be a courtesy - Americans tend to be rather suspicious and hostile to contributions coming from China, and it might draw unwarranted attention from agencies and bad media.
orangeisthe 30 minutes ago [-]
Why not?
doctorpangloss 1 hours ago [-]
have you ever tried contributing a large number of changes to OSS?
re-thc 2 hours ago [-]
> Why not just contribute to OpenCode instead of creating a clone :/
It's controlled by a different organization; in particular a startup in a "competing" space.
ComputerGuru 2 hours ago [-]
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moonu 2 hours ago [-]
I don't think that's true? AFAIK OpenCode started as a TUI and their GUI app is Tauri-based, so don't think it was forked from OpenCode. You might be thinking of Cursor
klaxce 2 hours ago [-]
Are you thinking of Cursor? OpenCode is a TUI like Codex.
maxloh 2 hours ago [-]
Do you even know what you're talking about?
OpenCode started as an independent CLI project. Their desktop app is still in beta, and it was never a fork of VS Code.
I believe they contain no code derived from VS Code.
aaomidi 2 hours ago [-]
What does “shamelessly forked” mean? It’s literally software meant to be forked lol
ignoramous 2 hours ago [-]
There were once two harnesses named OpenCode, one written in Go & the other in Typescript (the more popular one).
Kujtim Hoxha creates a project named TermAI. (SST folks) Dax & Adam join the project, rebrand it to OpenCode with Dax buying the domain, opencode.ai.
Charm, the company behind the original libraries, acqui-hires Kujtim, who moves the project to Charm's organization, leaving SST unimpressed (due to VC involvement?)
Allegations Charm rewrote git history and deleted GitHub comments.
Dax claims ownership of the brand, forks project. For a time, 2 projects named OpenCode exist. Charm eventually renames its version to "Crush".
Back then they were both written in Go too. OpenCode was rewritten in TypeScript after Crush got the rename.
gclawes 2 hours ago [-]
I thought this was a wireless/MIMO radio project at first
eunos 32 minutes ago [-]
Well Xiaomi is first and foremost a mobile phone company.
rickdeckard 2 hours ago [-]
yeah, was also expecting some disruption in the RF-design space.
Kinda RF-nerd clickbait... :)
fadedsignal 1 hours ago [-]
I also thought the same lol. It also happened with lora
nmfisher 1 hours ago [-]
Good timing, I was looking for alternatives earlier today. opencode didn't install properly and I wasn't a fan of oh-my-pi and nanocoder.
MiMo code (via my z.ai coding plan) is very pleasant so far, nice UI and seems to respond faster than Claude Code. It might be injecting much less cruft into the conversation.
I also got access to the mimo-2.5-pro ultraspeed model yesterday, which is really quite snappy. It does cost more than DeepSeek, though, so I'm not sure whether it's worth it yet. Definitely fast though.
cyanydeez 1 hours ago [-]
is it local compatible and does it have telemetry?
qskousen 33 minutes ago [-]
it does have telemetry, enabled by default, that sends metrics to tracking.miui.com, including what model you are using. it can be turned off by environment variable (MIMOCODE_ENABLE_ANALYSIS=false), and yes it still has all the normal OpenCode provider logic so it will work with other/local models. it also automatically looks for updates and fetches a mimo model list, including when the telemetry is off, though those can also be disabled.
telemetry enabled by default and named "analysis" is not great.
rurban 19 minutes ago [-]
Only worked for about 5m, then Too many requests.
andai 1 hours ago [-]
> Unlimited Context
>Knowledge accumulates automatically with lossless compression, preserving every critical detail even across million-line projects.
joshmarinacci 55 minutes ago [-]
That is an incredibly annoying grunge font. And what is the point of the hidden image in the background that reveals under your mouse cursor.
jadar 58 minutes ago [-]
I'm kind of surprised the demo UI is macOS. Are they mainly using Apple products to develop these things?
rurban 32 minutes ago [-]
The more advanced devs all use apple laptops, sure.
dgellow 32 minutes ago [-]
Who isn’t?
bobim 13 minutes ago [-]
I'm slapping debian on any crap hardware around, but that's just me with different ideological standards.
sheept 1 hours ago [-]
It's interesting that it renders Chinese in a TUI. I wonder if that breaks anything that assumes a character is always a column wide.
reactordev 1 hours ago [-]
Looks an awful lot like OpenCode
emulio 13 minutes ago [-]
Why is OpenCode awful?
croes 1 hours ago [-]
> MiMoCode is built as a fork of OpenCode.
That’s why
phplovesong 21 minutes ago [-]
Any english links?
Alifatisk 6 minutes ago [-]
Top right corner
pelagicAustral 1 hours ago [-]
I got an invite to test their ultra fast model only to be geofenced when trying to use it. Pff!
emayljames 1 hours ago [-]
I wonder what the minimum required memory specification is
psychoslave 1 hours ago [-]
Is that Open-Source like, run it locally, no phone home included, or open source like the thin front-end layer is all that is actually open-source but it’s an empty shell without the remote API it relies on?
passive 57 minutes ago [-]
They default it to talking to a free version of their model (which is incredibly cheap if you decide you like it.)
But it seems trivially easy to run it against local models. Their onboarding guide offers that option, though I have no idea if it changes any functionality.
Pxtl 1 hours ago [-]
The latter. It looks like it's meant to be a batteries-included agent to promote their free-for-a-limited time AI service that it connects to by default.
psychoslave 1 hours ago [-]
Ok, fair enough compared to the rest of the proeminent actors I guess, but quite confusing from dev point of view. Lately I started to experiment with model like Qwen2.5 on local. Good enough to ask simple question, but didn’t manage to do anything remotely close a agents I started to experiment with through Copilot.
Pxtl 8 minutes ago [-]
qwen3.5 9b runs okay on my 12GB gaming GPU. It's very stupid as a coding agent but it's possible to get useful work out of it.
onesingleblast 57 minutes ago [-]
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Typically, Chinese websites are a big pain to log in or sign up because they require a +86 phone number due to legal reasons. Being able to use it without having to make an account is amazing for friction reduction. I could probably even just install it onto new machines to help with set up.
I wonder how they are gonna detect and block abuse though?
“ MiMoCode is a terminal-native AI coding assistant. It can read and write code, run commands, manage Git, and use a persistent memory system to keep a deep understanding of your project across sessions while continuously improving itself.”
GitHub link (English): https://github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-Code
@dang might be better to link to the GitHub, and not for language reasons.
(Edit: for posterity, original URL as submitted was [0]).
[0]: https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimocode
It's a client-side change and doesn't impact the URL so users must manually change it each time they visit the site though
Not sure why my iPhone shows an option to translate website but all the destination languages to pick from (I have multiple languages installed), including English, are greyed out. iPhone does support translating from Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), and the button to translate website isn’t greyed out like it is for unsupported/unrecognized languages. Might be an iOS 27 bug, because it is working on other websites?
How many sites do this but you don't notice because they default to English?
From github
Not sure which "free" service you're referring to, but MiMo v2.5 Pro is plenty capable & (after its recent 70%+ price drop) one of the most affordable options in its class (DeepSeek v4 Pro, MiniMax M3, & Qwen 3.7 Plus). I read somewhere that Labs are incentivized to implement custom harnesses because each model has its strengths, quirks, & blindspots (like Qwen forking Gemini CLI)?
That was a good call. Gemini CLI is dead.
This is usually a PoC (Proof of concept) way to install something on a temporary container or temporary VM, but not for production use during daily desktop operation.
I was hoping their documentation would provide better installation instructions. But strangely, only for Windows do they recommend "npm install -g @mimo-ai/cli," which is a much better approach to managing installed packages.
For Mac/Linux, they have the strange recommendation to use the dangerous "curl <some_url> | bash." Quote:
> (for the best experience, Mac users are strongly encouraged to use iTerm or the VSCode Terminal) > curl -fsSL https://mimo.xiaomi.com/install | bash
:(
> npm install ... is a much better approach to managing installed packages.
No. Until the upcoming version of npm is out, npm will also run arbitrary code. Almost all common installation tools run arbitrary code. Not doing that is sadly the exception for now.
This is what Claude Code is to Claude
You might mean the MiMo-V2.5-Pro model?
Terminal > sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine > Drag and drop the app into terminal > enter and enter your password
Why not just contribute to OpenCode instead of creating a clone :/
There's plenty of reasons to start your own fork that you have full agency of, as long as the OSS License is maintained anyone will be able to benefit from any new features they want to make use of.
Today, legacy KHTML maintainers are boxed-out of upstream decisions that might prevent Manifest v2 from swirling down the drain. I'd argue the story isn't very beautiful anymore.
I think there's simply too much changed.
It's controlled by a different organization; in particular a startup in a "competing" space.
OpenCode started as an independent CLI project. Their desktop app is still in beta, and it was never a fork of VS Code.
I believe they contain no code derived from VS Code.
Kinda RF-nerd clickbait... :)
MiMo code (via my z.ai coding plan) is very pleasant so far, nice UI and seems to respond faster than Claude Code. It might be injecting much less cruft into the conversation.
I also got access to the mimo-2.5-pro ultraspeed model yesterday, which is really quite snappy. It does cost more than DeepSeek, though, so I'm not sure whether it's worth it yet. Definitely fast though.
telemetry enabled by default and named "analysis" is not great.
>Knowledge accumulates automatically with lossless compression, preserving every critical detail even across million-line projects.
That’s why
But it seems trivially easy to run it against local models. Their onboarding guide offers that option, though I have no idea if it changes any functionality.