Xiaomi Gains AI Edge with DeepSeek Talent Acquisition
Xiaomi's shares surged after recruiting Luo Fuli, a key architect of DeepSeek's V2 model that previously disrupted U.S. chipmakers. The AI researcher will lead development of MiMo, Xiaomi's proprietary large-language model that claims benchmark advantages over GPT-4o and Alibaba's QwQ-32B despite smaller parameters.
The hiring signals escalating competition in China's AI sector, with Xiaomi investing heavily to transition from hardware to intelligence infrastructure. Luo's WeChat post emphasized ambitions to bridge AI and physical world applications through MiMo, which utilizes reinforcement learning techniques developed by Xiaomi's Core task force.