Xiaomi is reportedly expanding its own GPU computing cluster to boost the development of its artificial intelligence application services.
Reports indicate that Xiaomi is expanding its own GPU computing cluster, with plans to invest in building its own large-scale natural language model to drive the development of its AI application services. Sources suggest that Xiaomi began this project several months ago, spearheaded by CEO Lei Jun. However, Xiaomi has not responded to these rumors. Prior to this, Xiaomi had already invested resources in AI application development, including the early launch of Xiao Ai (Xiaomi's AI assistant), the establishment of an AI team in 2016, and later investments in autonomous driving technology. In April 2023, Xiaomi established its AI Lab's large-scale natural language model team, recruiting numerous technical talents, including Luan Jian, former researcher at Toshiba China Research Institute, senior speech scientist at Microsoft China Engineering Institute, and chief language scientist for Microsoft Xiaoice, who serves as the head of Xiaomi's large-scale natural language model team. Xiaomi has already built a large-scale natural language processing (NLP) model, MiLM-13B, with 1.3 billion parameters on its mobile devices. In specific scenarios, its computational performance is close to that of the 6 billion-parameter MiLM-6B NLP model deployed in the cloud. This large-scale NLP model is also applied to the new version of Xiao Ai, enabling more natural conversational interaction. Over the past seven years, Xiaomi has undergone six expansions, increasing its technical staff to over 3000. Its AI technologies are applied across vision, acoustics, speech, NLP, knowledge graphs, machine learning, large-scale NLP models, and multimodal operations, and are used in mobile phones, smart IoT devices, robots, and vehicles.