) BELARUS, Novopolotsk – 25 FEBRUARY 2021: Xiaomi Redmi 8 Pro Phone Box Close Up The AI model team of the company began with 6,500 GPUs when it was established in April 2023. Lei Jun, Xiaomi’s CEO, highlighted Xiaomi’s commitment to AI during the announcement of the formation of the team. He highlighted the AI Lab, Xiao Ai, voice assistant and autonomous driving teams. Lei Jun will detail the company’s AI progress at Xiaomi’s 2023 annual event. He will also note the team’s focus in lightweight, locally deployable solution. Xiaomi has run a large AI (with 1.3 million parameters) model on its smartphones. Performance in some scenarios is comparable to cloud-based models that have 6 billion parameters. Luo Fuli joined Xiaomi’s AI Lab on December 20 to lead the large model efforts. He is a key developer for the DeepSeek V2 open-source model. Since its AI team’s founding in 2016, Xiaomi has grown to over 3,000 employees, with expertise in areas such as vision and speech, natural language processing, AI multimodal, and machine learning. These capabilities are being incorporated into the company’s mobile devices, cars, AIoT and robots. [Jiemian, in Chinese]
