Xiaomi2026-10-06 04:12:08Xiaomi promotes MiMo lead Luo Fuli to level 22 after 10 months as AI talent race heats upXiaomi has promoted Luo Fuli, the 31-year-old head of its MiMo large-model team, to level 22, according to the report, making her rise from publicly announced hire to the top of Xiaomi’s internal rank system in just 10 months. The promotion came alongside the release and open-sourcing of the Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 series, including Pro and Flash native multimodal models. The report said MiMo-V2.6-Pro scored 46 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and ranked first among open-weight models, while pricing at one-twentieth to one-sixtieth of overseas peers at the same intelligence level. The article also traces Luo’s path from Beijing Normal University and Peking University to Alibaba, High-Flyer, DeepSeek, and then Xiaomi. It places her rapid rise in a broader contest for young AI researchers across China’s major tech firms, citing moves by Tencent, ByteDance, Baidu, Moonshot AI and MiniMax, as well as rising compensation for elite interns, researchers and new graduates. The original piece was published by MarsBit and credited to the WeChat account Touzijie, written by Liu Bo.10
Xiaomi2026-08-24 08:25:10Xiaomi says Xring O3, O100 and D100 chips have completed tape-out validationXiaomi founder Lei Jun said the company’s new Xring chip lineup — Xring O3, Xring O100 and Xring D100 — has completed tape-out validation, according to ChainCatcher. The flagship Xring O3, described as an AI SoC for Xiaomi’s highest-end products, is set to make its debut in the Xiaomi 18 Fold. Xring O100, a high-bandwidth AI accelerator, and Xring D100, described as China’s first 3nm high-compute AI chip for smart driving, are scheduled for commercial use next year. Xiaomi disclosed a detailed set of specifications for O3. The chip uses a 3nm process, measures 133 mm², carries 24 billion transistors, and posts an AnTuTu extreme benchmark score of 5.22 million. Its CPU uses a 10-core all-big-core design with a top frequency of 4.35 GHz, while Geekbench scores were listed at 3,945 for single-core and above 15,000 for multi-core. The GPU has 16 cores, supports ray tracing, and was said to deliver major graphics gains over the previous generation while cutting power consumption by 64%. The company also said O3 is the first in the industry to support LPDDR6 and offers 200 TOPS of NPU Tensor compute, with dedicated optimization for large language model inference. Xiaomi added that it has spent more than five years on renewed large-chip development, investing more than RMB 21 billion and building a chip team of nearly 3,000 people.1160
Unitree2026-08-19 02:00:46Unitree debuts on STAR Market, opens at 1,100 yuan with 444.9 billion yuan valuationUnitree officially started trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market and surged 629.44% at the open to 1,100 yuan per share, giving the company a total market capitalization of 444.9 billion yuan, according to ChainCatcher. Based on its issue price of 150.80 yuan per share, one winning subscription lot would generate a paper gain of 474,600 yuan. The report also said Astrend IV, an affiliated entity of Shunwei Capital founded by Lei Jun, holds 16.106 million shares in Unitree. At the opening price, that stake was sitting on an unrealized gain of more than 15.2 billion yuan. The move marks Unitree’s formal arrival on the STAR Market, with opening-day pricing and shareholder gains quickly becoming the focus of attention.1120
Lei Jun2026-07-24 01:10:15Lei Jun Predicts AI Era Will Require Only 3 Days of Work per Week; Xiaomi Invests $200B in Humanoid RobotsXiaomi CEO Lei Jun forecast that AI could reduce work to three days a week, two hours a day, while committing $200 billion over five years for R&D, including humanoid robots.510
