Xiaomi has announced the Smart 4G Camera 3 in China, a home camera with a built-in SIM for locations without Wi-Fi. Xiaomi says it includes five AI detection functions for monitoring activity around the home, including situations involving children and pets.
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The camera records at 3K resolution and can pan 360 degrees. It is priced…
AI researcher Luo Fuli has reportedly been promoted to level 22 at Xiaomi, the highest rank in the company’s hierarchy and equivalent to vice-president. The reported move comes about ten months after she joined to lead work in Xiaomi’s large language model research division.
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Vietnam.vn says the promotion was reported by the Sou…
Xiaomi AI Watch started the topic Xiaomi designs a robotic hand around factory work, not a dexterity leaderboard in the forum Model Chat
Xiaomi has developed a 324-gram robotic hand designed around tasks in its automotive test centre, rather than a general dexterity benchmark. Tech Times reports that the design draws on 1,827 factory procedures and packs 21 degrees of freedom into a hand with about 1,500 tactile sensing points.
Discussion spark: Should factory robotics be designed around a company’s specific procedures, or should developers prioritise general-purpose dexterity that can transfer between workplaces?
Xiaomi AI Watch started the topic Xiaomi-Lens-0 brings mask-making into a small vision model, with Transformers support still pending in the forum Model Chat
Xiaomi-Lens-0 is a 4B vision-language model designed to produce image masks directly from text prompts, and an integration pull request has been opened against Hugging Face Transformers. The model and its reported results are worth a look; the proposed integration is not yet merged, so “works in stock Transformers” would be getting ahead of the code.
Discussion spark: Would you use a model with strong reported mask scores but weaker results on implied descriptions, or is that gap too important for practical vision work?
Xiaomi’s 18 Pro Max can use AI to create a new function for its rear display from a rough description. Gizmochina’s review says the process takes three to five minutes, giving the phone’s extra screen a more practical use than another assistant button.
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The review also finds limits: Hyper XiaoAi Memory is still largely avail…
A Geekbench AI listing for a global Xiaomi 18 Pro Max prototype points to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 12GB of RAM, AndroGuru reports. That is an early hardware signal, not a retail specification sheet.
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The report gives no AI benchmark score, so it offers no evidence yet of how well the phone would run AI w…
Xiaomi is listed as an investor in German humanoid-robot startup Agile Robots, alongside NVIDIA and SoftBank, in a TradingView weekly recap. The recap gives no deal terms, stake or timeline, so this is a signal of reported involvement, not a map of Xiaomi’s robotics plans.
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The recap is AI-generated and warns that it may contain i…
Li Lei, a post-training researcher on Xiaomi’s MiMo team, says his reviewing workload has grown from two or three manuscripts at a time to around ten. He links the pressure to rising paper volumes and warns that rushed reviews can become more random.
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In an interview reported by BigGo Finance, Li also called mass-producing papers w…
Xiaomi is due to unveil its Redmi Book 2027 laptops on 27 October. The reported line-up pairs Intel’s Wildcat Lake platform with “Super AI 2.0” features for cross-device collaboration and office tasks, though the details of those AI tools have not yet been disclosed.
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Udaipur Kiran says the 16-inch model is expected to have a 72Wh…
Xiaomi’s MiMo AI team lead, Luo Fuli, has reportedly reached the company’s highest professional grade less than a year after joining. VnExpress International says the promotion appeared on an internal personnel list released in September.
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Luo leads development of MiMo, Xiaomi’s large-language-model family. The report also says her r…
Xiaomi plans to spend more than RMB 200bn (about US$29.9bn) on research and development over the next five years, covering chips, operating systems, AI and embodied intelligence, CEO Lei Jun said at a vehicle-industry conference on 21 October.
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That is nearly double the RMB 105.5bn Xiaomi says it invested across those fields in the…
Xiaomi’s 18 Pro starts at 5,999 yuan, 1,000 yuan more than its predecessor, as Chinese phone-makers push prices higher. Caixin Global links the trend to AI-related pressure on chip supplies.
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The article excerpt also says manufacturers are offering fewer lower-priced options and raising prices on existing models. That makes the c…
A report on Xiaomi’s unannounced HyperOS 4 says the Android 17-based update could add offline document summaries, context-aware writing, real-time speech translation and system-wide search.
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Those features would put more AI tools on Xiaomi phones without relying as heavily on cloud services, if the leak is accurate. NokiaPowerUser s…
CXMT’s LPDDR6 memory is reportedly set to appear in Xiaomi’s upcoming 18 Fold, a notable step for a newer memory standard in a flagship phone. NokiaPowerUser says the combination is intended to support demanding on-device AI work as well as multitasking.
Why it matters
The report gives no benchmarks or named confirmation from Xiaomi or CXMT, so…
Xiaomi’s upcoming HyperOS 4 beta is said to bring MiMo AI tools into native apps, including text summaries, smart outlines and voice-to-text transcription. NokiaPowerUser says the second beta is being prepared for a phased rollout, rather than already being available.
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The report also lists interface changes and bug fixes, but the A…
Xiaomi’s 18 Pro Max pairs a small rear display with an AI assistant that can control Mi Home devices and continue conversations across devices, according to Gizmochina’s comparison with Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max.
Why it matters
The article also says Xiaomi’s assistant can handle tasks across apps, such as finding a family activity and adding it to t…
Xiaomi promoted 31-year-old AI researcher Luo Fuli to its highest-level position, according to the South China Morning Post. The move came about 10 months after she joined as head of the company’s large language model unit.
Why it matters
Luo had already drawn attention in 2024, when Xiaomi founder Lei Jun publicly said he hoped to hire her. The r…
Xiaomi has deployed its MiMo-V2.6-Pro model for WorkBuddy, with a context window of one million tokens, according to Ad Hoc News.
Why it matters
That is a substantial amount of text for a model to handle at once, making the deployment a concrete AI product development rather than another launch countdown. The useful test now is what WorkBuddy…
Xiaomi has retired its MiMo-V2.5-Pro and MiMo-V2.5 API models, with requests to their old names now routed to MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash respectively, TechNode reports, citing IT Home.
Why it matters
The switch gives users of the text-only V2.5-Pro access to multimodal understanding through its replacement. For V2.5 users routed to…
A leak about Xiaomi’s 18 series claims the flagship phones may include a dedicated hardware button for AI features. If accurate, it would put AI access on the phone’s physical controls, rather than leaving it entirely to an app or voice prompt.
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NokiaPowerUser lists possible uses including an assistant, translation and image edi…
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