Recently, Luo Fuli, a core member of the DeepSeek founding team, officially joined Xiaomi's MiMo large model team and revealed that she will "work with a group of creative researchers to build the future AGI." According to insiders, this "talent acquisition" was personally driven by Xiaomi founder Lei Jun. Luo Fuli's annual salary is as high as millions of yuan, highlighting Xiaomi's urgent demand for AI talent and its strategic determination.

Lei Jun Unhappy with Progress, Invests Heavily in Talent to Accelerate AGI Development

Although Xiaomi open-sourced the MiMo large model in April this year, emphasizing strong reasoning capabilities, it started relatively late in the competitive landscape of large models. Lei Jun admitted internally that he was "not satisfied with the progress," and immediately launched the "top talent recruitment plan," attracting industry leaders with highly competitive compensation. Luo Fuli's joining is a key move in this strategy—she not only has practical experience in building large model teams from scratch, but also continues to produce high-quality academic results.

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Academic and Engineering Dual-Drive: Xiaomi and Peking University Deepen Collaboration

Luo Fuli's academic strength has quickly turned into research momentum for Xiaomi. Recently, a paper jointly signed by Xiaomi and Peking University was published on arXiv. As one of the corresponding authors, Luo Fuli demonstrated her deep expertise in model architecture and reasoning optimization. This collaboration marks that Xiaomi is accelerating its technical closed-loop through "industry-academia-research integration," providing stronger theoretical support for the MiMo large model.

From Language Intelligence to the Physical World: Xiaomi's AGI Ambition

Luo Fuli wrote on social media: "Intelligence will eventually move from language to the physical world." This statement may hint at the next direction of Xiaomi's AI strategy—extending the capabilities of large models to robot, smart cars, and whole-home smart scenarios. As the core engine of Xiaomi's "people-vehicle-home full ecosystem" strategy, the MiMo large model will likely not only be used for mobile phone voice assistants, but also become a "general intelligent hub" connecting physical devices.