Hunter Alpha Real Identity Revealed: OpenRouter Anon Ranking Model Comes from Xiaomi

According to 1M AI News monitoring, the independent AI model evaluation platform Artificial Analysis (which horizontally evaluates over 400 models based on standardized benchmarks for intelligence, speed, and price) today listed Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro as a closed-source inference model, with a release date of March 18, 2026. This model supports a 1 million Token context window, with a maximum output of 32,000 Tokens, undisclosed parameters, and is currently offered for free. In the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the MiMo-V2-Pro ranks first among 160 models in the same price range (below $0.15 per million Tokens), with a score of 49, far exceeding the median of 13 for this tier.

Community analysis has confirmed that the MiMo-V2-Pro is indeed the "Hunter Alpha" which anonymously debuted on OpenRouter on March 11. This model ranks first on the OpenRouter platform with a weekly consumption of 500 billion Tokens. The OpenRouter page describes it as an "1 trillion parameter" Agent-based model, although this number has not been confirmed by Xiaomi. The evidence chain includes tokenizer special tokens consistent with the MiMo V2 series, and the model self-identifying as a Xiaomi development in conversations.

Also appearing at the same time is the MiMo-V2-Omni (corresponding to the "Healer Alpha" on OpenRouter), supporting text, image, audio, and video inputs with a 262,000 Token context window. Xiaomi has not yet released official announcements regarding these two models.