Bloomberg – Xiaomi Corp. announced his own open source AI model, joining the growing Rows of Chinese technological leaders They hope to cause a sensation in a flourishing field backed by Beijing.
The smartphone manufacturer and electric vehicles announced the Mimo Reasoning Model, which, like the Deepseek R1, mimics the way humans think when solving problems. Xiaomi published statistics in Wechat that showed that it exceeded O1-mini platforms of Openai and Qwen from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Baba) in reference tests, which Bloomberg has not independently verified.
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Xiaomi debuted with care one day after Alibaba presented the latest version of its own flagship, amplifying a career between the Chinese technological actors that broke out after R1 of Deepseek will astonish the industry with a low -cost but capable platform. Better known for its smartphones and, more recently, for a range of electric vehicles, Xiaomi declared Wednesday that it is also proposed to develop artificial general intelligence, or with a human level.
His actions rose more than 5% in Hong Kong. The Chinese AI actions also rose on Wednesday after the wide coverage of the state media of the visit of President Xi Jinping to an incubator and accelerator of technological companies of AI, which underlines Beijing’s support to the native technology that can compete with the American.
“Mimo is the first sample of our newly created AI model team,” Xiaomi said in a Wechat post. “Although 2025 may seem a late stage to undertake the dream of the great models, We believe that AGI is a long -term effort. ”
-Apparently, Xiaomi executives have talked about investing in the past, although it is the first real product that arises. Its incursion involves the second major project in as many years for a company better known for manufacturing smartphones and affordable appliances, from vacuum robots to rice pots. Its billionaire CEO, Lei Jun, headed in 2024 an incursion of US $ 10,000 million in the crowded land of electric vehicles, which he described as his last Hurra Startup.
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Bloomberg News reported that he was forced to delay the debut of his first sports utilitarian vehicle after a fatal accident in which his star electric car was involved, a blow to his ambitions to press Tesla Inc. (TSLA) and Byd Co. Their shares have collapsed around 15% since that episode of March.
In a message posted in Weibo after the publication of the Bloomberg report, the company said that the calendar for the launch of the YU7 has not changed and remains set for June or July.
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