Overview
- Luo Fuli announced her move on WeChat with a group photo of roughly 40 team members, confirming her role on Xiaomi’s MiMo large-model team.
- She was listed as a corresponding author on an October Xiaomi–Peking University arXiv paper, signaling collaboration before the public move.
- MiMo launched in April as an open-source, reasoning-oriented model and has since added a vision–language variant (May) and a native end-to-end speech model (September).
- Chinese media report that founder Lei Jun personally recruited top talent with compensation reportedly at the tens of millions of RMB level, a claim Xiaomi has not confirmed.
- Reporters infer the team may target world models and embodied intelligence after Luo wrote that intelligence will move from language to the physical world, though Xiaomi has not detailed such plans.