Lei Jun posted a set of numbers on Weibo: Xiaomi will invest 60 billion RMB in AI over the next three years. At least 16 billion RMB in 2026 alone. Q1 R&D spend: 9 billion RMB, up 33.4% year over year. R&D headcount: 26,048. All historic highs.
Xiaomi is transforming from a phone company into an AI company. But look closely, and Xiaomi's AI map already seems fairly complete — the MiMo LLM, the miclaw phone Agent, the Agent Ecosystem Platform, 1 billion IoT devices, 746 million monthly active users. Everything that should be there is there.
Lei Jun clearly isn't satisfied. He's looking for a missing piece. Without it, the 60 billion RMB investment can't fully convert into business value.
That piece is MiMo SoloEngine.
1. Xiaomi's AI Map: Four Layers, Only the Last One Missing
