Overview
- Luo Fuli publicly stated on social media that she has joined the Xiaomi MiMo large‑model team, a post shared via screenshots by blogger @粮厂研究员Will.
- She is listed as a corresponding author on an October arXiv paper co‑authored by Xiaomi and Peking University, indicating prior involvement with the effort.
- Chinese outlet Yicai cited sources saying Lei Jun personally recruited top large‑model talent with pay reportedly in the tens of millions of RMB, a claim not confirmed by Xiaomi.
- Xiaomi introduced MiMo as an open‑source, reasoning‑oriented model in April as an early project of its newly formed core large‑model team.
- Coverage notes her post included a group photo of about 40 team members and language about moving from language to the physical world, which observers interpret as a possible push toward world models and embodied intelligence.