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MiMo-V2.6 by Xiaomi: a local AI agent for code and terminal tasks
This is a small model Xiaomi fine-tuned to handle tools and the terminal on its own. Install it for free via Ollama and get an agent for simple coding tasks right on your machine.
A 9-billion-parameter model (the internal settings a model uses to build its answers), built by Xiaomi on the open Qwen3.5-9B and further trained to use tools, the terminal, and write code on its own.
When it helps
Useful for routine coding tasks and experiments — free and without sending your code to someone else's cloud. For serious bugs and complex projects it's still weaker than larger models.
Pros
- Runs fully locally, no subscription or payment needed
- Much better at self-driven agent tasks (5→30 points on a key test)
- Can read images, not just text
- Your code never leaves your machine
Cons
- Barely improved at fixing real bugs (SWE-bench: 60.0 → 61.1)
- Weaker than large models like Opus for serious work
How to set it up — step by step
- 1Open your coding AI agent (like Claude Code) inside a test project folder.
- 2Send the agent the text from the block below.
- 3Wait for Ollama and the model to install — a regular 16GB laptop is enough.
- 4Give the model a simple test task in a separate folder, not your real project.
- 5Check how it uses tools and the terminal on its own before trusting it with anything important.
Text for your agent
Copy this and send it to your agent — Claude Code, Codex, any of them:
Install the MiMo-V2.6 model by Xiaomi through Ollama: ollama run mimo-v2.6 — a regular laptop with 16 GB of RAM is enough. Give it a simple task in a test repository and show me how it uses tools on its own.
A regular laptop with 16 GB of RAM or more — the default version of the model takes about 7 GB.
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