China's Xiaomi Group has developed a new Mi Chat assistant based on artificial intelligence (AI). About this report ITHome version.
Insiders say the new neural network will demonstrate the company's growing capabilities in the field of AI. It will be available in Xiaomi gadgets and services. The assistant will be powered by the large language model (LLM) MiMo-7B-RL, which was launched earlier this year.
Sources call the upcoming Mi Chat service “ChatGPT killer”. They explain that despite the relatively small number of parameters—7 billion—the model still outperforms competing models. As a result, MiMo-7B-RL proved to be more productive than OpenAI's o1-mini and Alibaba's Qwen QwQ-32B-Preview in key tests.
ITHome journalists recall that Xiaomi President Lu Weibin previously announced that his company has been investing heavily in AI development for several quarters. He also said that the immediate goal of Xiaomi engineers is to deeply integrate the neural network with the physical world.
In short, the authors predict that Mi Chat will be presented at the Xiaomi Human Automotive Housing Ecosystem Partner Conference 2025. It will take place in Beijing on December 17.
In early December, Financial Times journalists noticed that Chinese smartphone manufacturers began aggressively advertising artificial intelligence functions as part of the fight against Apple.
