Xiaomi’s latest AI coding tool claims to outperform Claude Code on complex tasks | Technology News
Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi has released Mimo Code v0.1.0, its latest open-source terminal-native AI coding assistant aimed at developers. The model has reportedly surpassed Anthropic’s Claude Code on some key benchmarks in agentic coding, particularly on long horizon tasks and multi-steps tasks. Long horizon tasks are simply goals assigned to an AI agent that may require numerous sequential steps, decisions, and hundreds of actions to accomplish a task. The claims are reportedly based on its internal beta release and a survey of 576 developers. According to the company, the model reads and writes code, executes commands, manages Git operations, and maintains persistent project memory across sessions inside the terminal. Xiaomi’s latest release comes along with MiMo V2.5, a multimodal model that is free for a limited time and features a one-million-token context window. Xiaomi describes MiMo Code V0.1.0 as a tool that is more than an AI coding assistant in your terminal. “It’s the smartest coding partner you’ll ever work with,” the company said on its X handle. The model is currently available on GitHub …









