Smartphone giant Xiaomi unveils AI model, joining fierce competition in China


Xiaomi says its open-source MiMo reasoning model, trained completely in-house, rivals the performance of OpenAI's o1-mini and Alibaba's QwQ-32B. — SCMP

Chinese smartphone and electric vehicle maker Xiaomi on Friday unveiled a new reasoning artificial intelligence (AI) model developed in-house, underscoring the company’s ambition to integrate its hardware products with home-grown generative AI.

The open-source MiMo model has 7 billion parameters and outperformed OpenAI’s o1-mini and Alibaba Group Holding’s QwQ-32B-Preview, part of the Qwen series of models, in maths reasoning and coding, Xiaomi said in a statement. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.

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