MiMo SoloEngine: The Final Piece of Xiaomi's AI Puzzle (opens in new tab)

Lei Jun posted a set of numbers on Weibo: Xiaomi will invest 60 billion RMB in AI over the next three years. At least 16 billion RMB in 2026 alone. Q1 R&D spend: 9 billion RMB, up 33.4% year over year. R&D headcount: 26,048. All historic highs. Xiaomi is transforming from a phone company into an AI company. But look closely, and Xiaomi's AI map already seems fairly complete — the MiMo LLM, the miclaw phone Agent, the Agent Ecosystem Platform, 1 billion IoT devices, 746 million monthly active ...