Xiaomi Revamps the XiaoAI Architecture: Luo Fuli’s Team Is Responsible for the Model Foundation, with Development Rights Delegated to Phone and Car Terminals

According to monitoring by Dongcha Beating, as exclusively reported by 36Kr, Xiaomi recently underwent a new round of organizational restructuring for its core AI product, "Xiao AI."

After the restructuring, Xiao AI's technical architecture was decoupled into three major modules: the underlying foundational large model capabilities are provided by the MiMo large model team led by Luo Fuli; Luan Jian's team is responsible for cloud-based engineering, packaging the large model into stable and reliable interfaces; and the core "edge-side" product feature development rights have been directly delegated to the operating system (OS) teams of terminal businesses such as smartphones and automobiles. Wang Gang, who led the Xiao AI team for nearly a decade, has been transferred to the robotics business in this restructuring.

The direct driving force behind this restructuring is the demand for edge-side AI from terminals with high computing power, such as smartphones and vehicles. Previously, all Xiaomi devices relied on standardized capabilities provided by the cloud. Because of the need to accommodate low-computing-power hardware like Xiao AI speakers, smartphones and cockpit terminals with high computing power could not fully unleash their hardware potential. After the restructuring, the OS teams for smartphones and vehicles will be able to develop customized intelligent agent features based on local computing power. Xiaomi Chairman Lei Jun previously revealed that over the next three years, Xiaomi will invest at least 60 billion yuan in the AI field, focusing on "reshaping the entire human-vehicle-home ecosystem around the Agent paradigm." This organizational loosening and decoupling is precisely the starting point for the implementation of this strategy.