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1. egeres · 1790062027 · focus · HN ↗

   It feels suspicious that MiMo-V2.6 Pro gets 46 in de index while DeepSeek-V4.1 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialanalysis.ai&#x2F;models&#x2F;deepseek-v4-1-flash" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialanalysis.ai&#x2F;models&#x2F;deepseek-v4-1-flash) gets 39. According to the appendix at the bottom of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mimo.xiaomi.com&#x2F;mimo-v2-6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mimo.xiaomi.com&#x2F;mimo-v2-6 the deepseek model sometimes surpasses mimo and it&#x27;s not so far behind in capabilities. A week ago opus 5 appeared 1 points ahead of fable 5 despite fable being a much smarter model (this has been corrected already)

   1. Shekelphile · 1790091715 · focus · HN ↗

      All of the chinese labs have been overfitting on benchmark data to game the results for a while now - MiMo and Deepseek are not anywhere near frontier and mostly compete with models like Luna - which they are still worse than.

      There isn&#x27;t much compelling reason to use these unless you are just averse to giving money to openai&#x2F;altman. A $20 codex sub gives you ~$150 of luna use per weekly limit, while there isn&#x27;t any good subsidized options for chinese models at all (and the few who were subsidizing, like opencode, rugpulled by reducing monthly limit to $60 to $15 with no notice to users).

      1. staticman2 · 1790094080 · focus · HN ↗

         If you hit the $20 codex 5 hour limit wouldn&#x27;t that be a good situation to switch to a Chinese model for a bit?

         1. Shekelphile · 1790094675 · focus · HN ↗

            I mean, why would you? Chinese models through an API are more expensive than any subsidized subscription and the only one offering a transparent subsidy (opencode) only gives you $15 of credit on any relevant models, and still has a 5 hour limit.

            The answer is just a second $20 subscription.

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