Xiaomi open-sources U0, a unified model for generating robot training data

As the first unified model in the embodied-generation space, U0 has already validated generation quality, data usefulness and engineering efficiency. In the WorldArena benchmark built by Tsinghua, Peking and others, U0 scored first in the world under an anonymous code, and policies trained on its expanded data lifted task completion by 26.3 per cent in … Read more

The StarWeave scientist who walked away to build a home robot

From a 20 billion yuan unicorn to a fresh start The founder is Xu Huazhe, formerly co-founder and chief scientist of StarWeave, the embodied-AI company whose valuation blew past 20 billion yuan with close to 3 billion yuan raised. Xu left at the peak to build something new. His record is rare even in this … Read more

Xiaomi’s MiMo bet: why a hardware company is still paying for a base model

Xiaomi has reorganised its AI around MiMo, its in-house base model, folding the XiaoAI assistant’s tech into three pillars: the MiMo model team led by Luo Fuli, cloud engineering under Luan Jian, and on-device OS work pushed into the phone business. The move matters because MiMo is no longer an optional model. As Xiaomi’s ‘human-car-home’ … Read more

Xiaomi Reorganises Around MiMo, Its Base Model, for the Agent Era

Xiaomi has restructured its AI around the MiMo base model, splitting the technology behind its decade-old voice assistant XiaoAI into three pillars: the MiMo base-model team led by Luo Fuli, the cloud engineering team led by Luan Jian, and the on-device OS capability pushed down into the phone and car teams. The move signals that … Read more

Xiaomi Open-Sources Robotics-U0, a Unified Model That Manufactures Robot Training Data

Xiaomi has released and open-sourced Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, which it calls the first unified generative model for embodied AI, and the bottleneck it targets is the one everyone agrees on but few have solved: robot training data. Language models drank from the internet; robots have no equivalent “physical-world internet.” Useful data, vision, action and state together, mostly … Read more