Lei Jun: The Future Main Breakthrough Direction of Xiaomi's Large Model Technology is 'Lightweight and Local Deployment'


Xiaomi reorganizes its XiaoAi technical team to address the AI large model trend, integrating AI deeply into all businesses. This shift marks a transition from previous single-product development to a strategy driven by large models, demonstrating foresight and potentially building future competitive advantage.....
Xiaomi announced that the old version of MiMo-V2-Pro/Omni model will be discontinued on June 30, 2026, and upgraded to the MiMo V2.5 series. The MiMo-V2-Pro will be migrated to V2.5-Pro, and MiMo-V2-Omni will be upgraded to the new V2.5 model. The new version has been fully launched, aiming to provide stronger reasoning capabilities and higher cost-effectiveness, and to promote developers to migrate.
On May 26, Lei Jun, Chairman of Xiaomi Group, announced R&D spending of 9 billion yuan in Q1 2026, up 33.4% year-on-year, with over 26,000 R&D staff and annual R&D investment expected to exceed 40 billion yuan. Its self-developed large model, Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro, ranked first globally among open-source models in both comprehensive intelligence and Agent indices on the Artificial Analysis list.....
Xiaomi's MiMo large model announced a permanent price reduction for its MiMo-V2.5 series APIs on May 27, with cuts up to 99%, and simplified billing by removing context window length distinctions, aiming to reduce developer costs. The adjustment is effective globally.....
On May 8, the MIIT, the Administration for Market Regulation, and the Ministry of Commerce jointly released the national standard 'Grading of Intelligence for Artificial Intelligence Terminals', establishing a unified evaluation system. The standard adopts a '2+N' framework, clarifying the definition of smart terminals, grading logic, and testing methods. It sets up four levels of capabilities from L1 Response Level to L4 Collaboration Level. The L4 level will be further improved with technological development.