Xiaomi announced that it is accelerating its layout in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), planning to build a GPU cluster of 10,000 cards to promote the research and development and application of large AI models.
This strategic move marks Xiaomi's further deepening in the field of AI technology, aiming to achieve the application of large-scale AI models on the mobile phone side through powerful computing resources, and gradually expand to multiple business sectors such as automobiles and smart homes.
Since the full investment in AI technology in 2016, Xiaomi's intelligent voice assistant "Xiao Ai" has reached 120 million monthly active units, and AI technology has been widely used in multiple business sectors such as mobile phones, smart homes, and automobiles. In April 2023, Xiaomi officially established the AI Laboratory Large Model Team, headed by Luan Jian, and the team size has expanded to more than 3,000 people. Xiaomi's large model team had 6,500 GPU resources at the beginning of its establishment, which not only shows Xiaomi's strong strength in hardware resources, but also indicates its deep accumulation in AI technology research and development.
Xiaomi's large language model "MiLM" has passed the large model filing and is planned to be applied to Xiaomi's automobiles, mobile phones, smart homes and other products to achieve collaboration between devices and promote the full ecological strategy of people, cars and homes. In addition, Xiaomi plans to further increase its investment in AI large models by building a GPU 10,000-card cluster. The effects of some scenes are close to the large model with 6 billion parameters on the cloud.
In terms of talent introduction, Luo Fuli, a key developer of DeepSeek's open source large model DeepSeek-V2, has officially joined Xiaomi and assumed the leadership role of Xiaomi AI Lab, responsible for the construction and R&D of the large model team. Luo Fuli's joining will further accelerate Xiaomi's R&D and application of large model technology.
Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi, expressed concern about the company's late start in the field of AI large models, so he decided to poach Luo Fuli with a high salary, and her salary level even reached the level of 10 million yuan. This shows Xiaomi's emphasis on the field of AI large models and its urgent need for technological breakthroughs.