How Xiaomi’s push into AI, chips and EVs is future-proofing its hardware empire

Xiaomi is betting on Artificial Intelligence to future-proof its sprawling hardware empire, pouring massive resources into open-source models to ensure its next generation of smartphones and electric vehicles (EVs) does not get left behind in an AI-driven market.The Beijing-based firm’s latest AI model, MiMo-V2.5-Pro, introduced last month, was ranked by third-party benchmark platform Artificial Analysis as the world’s top open-source model for agentic capabilities – referring to an AI system’s ability to autonomously carry out complex, multistep tasks.Topping the benchmark signals early progress for a company that only started releasing open-source AI systems a year ago. It also comes as Xiaomi recently committed more than 60 billion yuan (US$8.8 billion) to AI investments over the next three years, underscoring its ambition to develop frontier AI models.