All posts tagged: Xiaomi

CHINA RECAP: Beijing, Xiaomi test drive, BYD news, and a fresh home battery pilot

CHINA RECAP: Beijing, Xiaomi test drive, BYD news, and a fresh home battery pilot

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On today’s totally true episode of Quick Charge, Fred returns from the Beijing Auto Show with a fresh look at the future of the car business, and a test drive in a 2nd generation Xiaomi SU7 does nothing to convince him that China hasn’t just set the bar even higher. We’ve also got news about the latest from VW’s Chinese AUDI and JETTA brands, a passing glance at a big Buick concept with no windshield, and news about BYD’s latest new flagship sedan that promises to bring the superfast charging fight to CATL. Source Links Prefer listening to your podcasts? Audio-only versions of Quick Charge are now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are (allegedly) recorded several times per week, most weeks. We’ll be posting bonus audio content from time to time as well, so be sure to follow and subscribe so you don’t miss a minute of Electrek’s high-voltage podcast series. Advertisement – scroll for more content Got news? Let us know!Drop us a line at tips@electrek.co. You can also rate us …

Open source Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and V2.5-Pro are among the most efficient (and affordable) at agentic ‘claw’ tasks

Open source Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and V2.5-Pro are among the most efficient (and affordable) at agentic ‘claw’ tasks

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Xiaomi, the Chinese firm best known for its smartphones and electric vehicles, has lately been shipping some incredibly affordable and high-powered open source AI large language models. The trend continued today with the release of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 and Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro, both available under the permissive, enterprise-friendly MIT License, making them suitable for use in production in commercial applications. Enterprises and individual/independent developers can now download either of the models (and more Xiaomi open source options) directly from Hugging Face, modify them as needed, and run them locally or on virtual private clouds as they see fit. The most notable attribute of these models besides the open source licensing is that, according to Xiaomi’s published benchmarks, they are among the most efficient available for agentic “claw” tasks, that is, powering systems such as OpenClaw, NanoClaw and Hermes Agent, in which users can communicate with them directly over third-party messaging apps and have the agents go off and complete tasks on the human user’s behalf, such as making and publishing marketing content, running accounts, organizing email and …

I went to the Beijing Auto Show and it’s a glimpse at the future of the auto industry

I went to the Beijing Auto Show and it’s a glimpse at the future of the auto industry

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I just spent two days at the 2026 Beijing Auto Show (Auto China 2026), and I need to tell you something: the future of the auto industry is electric and Chinese. I’m not being dramatic. Just realistic. In a single hall at the show, there were more EV models on display than there are available ones in the entire United States. There are 17 halls at this show. Seventeen. And they all have more EVs than the US market. The show features 1,451 vehicles, including 181 world premieres and 71 concept cars, sprawling across a record-breaking 380,000 square meters of exhibition space at two venues. It’s now the largest auto show in the world — and it’s not even close. In just the hall circled, there were more EVs than what’s available in the US, and there were 16 other halls just like it. Here are my impressions and photos from the show. Advertisement – scroll for more content The sheer scale is overwhelming Walking through the show, the first thing that hits you is …

Xiaomi poaches Tesla’s delivery operations manager in Europe ahead of 2027 launch

Xiaomi poaches Tesla’s delivery operations manager in Europe ahead of 2027 launch

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Xiaomi has hired Dieter Lorenz, Tesla’s Senior Manager of Delivery Operations for Central Europe, as its new Head of Delivery & Logistics Europe. The move signals that Xiaomi is aggressively building an operations infrastructure on the ground in Europe well ahead of its confirmed 2027 market entry. Lorenz isn’t the only Tesla operations employee making the jump, either. At least one other former Tesla operations staffer in Europe has also landed at Xiaomi, suggesting a deliberate recruitment push targeting Tesla’s European logistics expertise. From Tesla lifer to Xiaomi’s European logistics lead Lorenz spent over six years at Tesla in Germany, rising through a series of increasingly senior operations roles. He started as an Operations Supervisor in early 2020, moved up to Operations Manager for Germany, then expanded his scope to cover Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, then all of Central Europe. By September 2024, he held the title of Senior Manager of Delivery Operations for Central Europe — one of Tesla’s most important regional logistics roles. In a LinkedIn post announcing his departure, Lorenz …

The Xiaomi 17 Ultra has some impressive add-ons that make snapping photos really fun

The Xiaomi 17 Ultra has some impressive add-ons that make snapping photos really fun

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In the U.S., discussions about top camera phones largely center around iPhones, the Samsung Galaxy series, and, lately, the Google Pixel. In contrast, people in Asia and parts of Europe get a wider range of choice with companies like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo upping their camera game. The Xiaomi 17 Ultra, which recently had its global launch, is one of those devices, with a big camera bump that houses a versatile set of sensors, and a partnership with the storied German camera maker Leica to supply software-level changes and sensibilities to how scenes are shot. The camera has tons of options to choose from, ranging from different focal lengths on the hardware side to various filters and settings to change how the final image looks. Image Credits: Ivan MehtaImage Credits:Ivan Mehta Xiaomi has also released external add-ons that snap on like a cover to the camera, as well as a USB-based accessory that provides hardware buttons to shoot video or photos. While these add-ons don’t particularly add a lot of features, it makes one-hand operation …

Xiaomi poaches Tesla’s delivery operations manager in Europe ahead of 2027 launch

Xiaomi hires Tesla’s former head of sales in China to lead its auto retail push

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Xiaomi has recruited Kong Yanshuang, formerly Tesla’s General Manager for the China region, to take charge of its growing automotive sales operations. The hire signals a significant professionalization of Xiaomi’s EV retail strategy as the company targets 550,000 deliveries in 2026. Kong joined Xiaomi in early March and is currently in a work handover phase, replacing Li Xiaorui, the former director of Xiaomi’s automotive division, according to a report from Jiemian News. Kong’s Tesla career Kong Yanshuang was a core executive in Tesla’s China sales organization for several years. She initially served as General Manager of Tesla’s South China region, where she oversaw the expansion of Tesla’s retail and service presence across cities like Guangzhou and Shenzhen, as well as into lower-tier markets — a critical part of Tesla’s strategy to grow sales in China. She later rose to the role of China Regional General Manager, a position she held during 2022-2023, during which she frequently served as a spokesperson for Tesla China at media briefings covering Shanghai Gigafactory milestones and new model launches. In …

Xiaomi stuns with new MiMo-V2-Pro LLM nearing GPT-5.2, Opus 4.6 performance at a fraction of the cost

Xiaomi stuns with new MiMo-V2-Pro LLM nearing GPT-5.2, Opus 4.6 performance at a fraction of the cost

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Chinese electronics and car manufacturer Xiaomi surprised the global AI community today with the release of MiMo-V2-Pro, a new 1-trillion parameter foundation model with benchmarks approaching those of U.S. AI giants OpenAI and Anthropic, but at around a seventh or sixth the cost when accessed over proprietary API — and importantly, sending less than 256,000 tokens-worth of information back and forth. Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Luo characterizes as a “quiet ambush” on the global frontier. Furthermore, Luo stated in an X post that the company does plan to open source a model variant from this latest release, ” when the models are stable enough to deserve it.” By focusing on the “action space” of intelligence—moving from code generation to the autonomous operation of digital “claws”—Xiaomi is attempting to leapfrog the conversational paradigm entirely. Prior to this foray into frontier AI, Beijing-based Xiaomi established itself as a titan of “The Internet of Things” and consumer hardware. Globally recognized as the world’s third-largest smartphone manufacturer, …

Xiaomi Now Using Humanoid Robots to Assemble Electric Cars

Xiaomi Now Using Humanoid Robots to Assemble Electric Cars

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech There’s a new “intern” on the assembly line, and it won’t be pausing every hour to take a bathroom break. The Chinese consumer electronic giant Xiaomi recently announced a trial run for a couple of humanoid robot workers at its electric vehicle factory in Beijing. In an interview with CNBC, Xiaomi president Lu Weibing said the company’s bots successfully completed 90.2 percent of the work over a three hour period. A PR video shared by the company shows the two bots, straddling opposite ends of the assembly line, gingerly applying lugnuts to a vehicle chassis. At a cycle time of 76 seconds, it appears to be pretty slow going — a pair of humans could undoubtedly perform the task faster — but is nonetheless one of the first looks at humanoid robots successfully integrating into an industrial production setting. According to Lu, the robots are fast enough to keep up with the pace of the rest of the …

Xiaomi reveals full specs of its 1,900 hp Vision GT electric hypercar concept

Xiaomi reveals full specs of its 1,900 hp Vision GT electric hypercar concept

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Xiaomi has revealed the full technical specifications of its Vision Gran Turismo electric hypercar concept at MWC Barcelona, and the details are genuinely impressive — including a magnetic wheel system that keeps wheel covers stationary while the car is moving. The concept, which we first reported on last week when it leaked ahead of MWC, is now on full display at the show with a detailed spec sheet and some unique engineering solutions that go well beyond a typical concept car design exercise. Full aero specs confirm a balancing act Xiaomi’s official press release confirms the Vision GT achieves a drag coefficient of just 0.29 with a downforce figure of -1.2 and an aerodynamic efficiency rating of 4.1. For context, most electric hypercars prioritize either low drag for top speed or high downforce for cornering — Xiaomi says it focused on the balance between both. The company’s design head, Tianyuan Li, explained the philosophy: the concept was designed so that every exterior element serves a dual aerodynamic and aesthetic purpose, with no add-on wings or …