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雷军挖来一位女将

Core Insights - The former DeepSeek researcher, Luo Fuli, has officially joined Xiaomi to work in the Xiaomi MiMo large model team, marking a significant recruitment for the company [1][6]. Group 1: Background of Luo Fuli - Luo Fuli, a post-95 talent from Yibin, Sichuan, graduated with a master's degree from Peking University and has previously worked at Alibaba's DAMO Academy and DeepSeek [3][4]. - She gained recognition in 2019 for publishing eight papers at the ACL conference while still a master's student, earning the title of "genius AI girl" [4]. - After leaving Alibaba, she worked at a quantitative hedge fund and then joined DeepSeek, contributing to the development of the MoE model DeepSeek-V2 [5]. Group 2: Xiaomi's AI Strategy - Xiaomi has been investing in AI since the establishment of its AI Lab in 2016, initially focusing on IoT products and expanding into various AI technologies [6]. - In 2023, Xiaomi formed the AI Lab's large model team, led by a former Toshiba researcher, to enhance its AI capabilities [6]. - The company has committed to investing 30 billion yuan in R&D by 2025, with a quarter of that allocated to AI, indicating a strong focus on developing proprietary large models [7]. Group 3: Performance of Xiaomi MiMo - The Xiaomi MiMo model has demonstrated superior performance in mathematical reasoning and coding competitions, outperforming OpenAI's o1-mini and Alibaba's QwQ-32B-Preview models with only 7 billion parameters [7]. - Xiaomi has also released several multimodal models, showcasing its ambition to lead in the AI space [7]. Group 4: Competitive Landscape - The AI sector is highly competitive, with major players already established, making it challenging for Xiaomi to carve out its niche [7]. - The recruitment of key talent like Luo Fuli is crucial for Xiaomi as it navigates this competitive landscape, emphasizing that success in AI is fundamentally a talent competition [7].