Chinese technology company Xiaomi has unveiled its first open source AI model, MiMo, officially entering the race for powerful voice AI.
MiMo was developed to imitate human problem-solving processes, similar to the recently released R1 model from DeepSeek.
According to Xiaomi, MiMo even outperformed OpenAI's o1-mini and Alibaba's Qwen model in internal benchmark tests - this information has not yet been independently verified.
"MiMo is the first taste of our newly established core team for AI models," the company explained on WeChat.
It added: "While 2025 may seem like a late stage to realize the dream of big models, we believe AGI is a long-term endeavor."
Xiaomi is thus following other Chinese technology giants such as Alibaba into a sector specifically promoted by the government.
In the long term, the company wants to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) - a system that is comparable to human intelligence.
The AI initiative is Xiaomi's second major project in a short space of time, following its billion-dollar expansion into the electric car market in 2024.
At the time, founder Lei Jun had invested around ten billion US dollars in an electric car start-up and described it as his "last major start-up project".