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Xiaomi Crowns O1 Chip Team in 2025 Tech Awards as CEO Clarifies Recent Controversies

Lei Jun pledges RMB 200 billion for five years of R&D to drive advances in chips, operating systems and AI.

Overview

  • The in‑house Xuanyue O1 SoC team won the top RMB 10 million prize, with 2200MPa high‑strength steel and a smart‑glasses architecture taking second and third.
  • Lei Jun said Xiaomi invested about RMB 105 billion in R&D over the past five years and will allocate RMB 200 billion in the next five years to core technologies.
  • Xiaomi concluded its probe into a staff contact with a controversial KOL, firing the handler and docking 2025 performance pay and bonuses for the CMO Xu Fei and PR head Xu Jieyun, while ending any cooperation with that KOL.
  • In a livestream, Lei Jun said a viral "1,300 km on one charge" clip was taken out of context from his account of a Beijing‑to‑Shanghai trip with a single mid‑journey recharge.
  • Lei Jun called an internal meeting misread of "O1" as "01" a simple slip and rejected the "marketing master" label, stressing product engineering and an engineer‑first culture.