Recently, some media reported that Luo Fuli, the 31-year-old head of Xiaomi’s large model team, has reached the 22nd level of Xiaomi.
Industry insiders say that level 22 is actually the highest level in Xiaomi’s current ranking system and will not go higher. Going higher will only be a change in position and there will be no change in rank.
Luo Fuli joined Xiaomi on November 12, 2025, which means that she joined Xiaomi less than a year ago.
He was promoted to the highest rank in such a short time. Such a promotion speed should be rare in Xiaomi Group, even in the domestic Internet circle.
Everyone should be familiar with Luo Fuli’s resume. She is called a “genius girl” in the AI world.
Graduated from Beijing Normal University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s degree in computational linguistics from Peking University. After graduation, he joined Alibaba Damo Academy. In 2022, he joined Magic Square and became a DeepSeek researcher. He is one of the core members of DeepSeek-V2/V3 and has also partially participated in R1.
Then in 2025, he was poached from Deeseek by Lei Jun. According to outside reports, the salary amount reached “tens of millions”.
After Luo Fuli joined Xiaomi, her achievements were also very significant.
Later, Xiaomi released MiMo, which once dominated the open source list. On the OpenRouter list, Xiaomi’s MiniMax M2.5 once ranked first.
The recently released MiMo-V2.6 ranks first in the world’s open weight model and first in domestic models. It is also the only full-mode Pro model in the global open source and has entered the first echelon in the world.
We know that Xiaomi is not just an AI company, it is also a company with many product lines, such as mobile phones, cars, tablets, TVs, watches, home appliances, etc.
Other AI companies still need to find commercial implementation and find the entrance to their own AI, but Xiaomi does not need that. Xiaomi has a bunch of ready-made products that can be directly connected, and once connected, you can see the effects.
What Xiaomi needs now is a unified AI base, and Luo Fuli has just done this for Lei Jun, and Super Xiaoai 2.0 powered by MiMo has already entered Xiaomi’s products.
All of this is actually brought about by Luo Fuli. The team she leads is responsible for the base of large models. She is the core undertaker of Xiaomi’s 60 billion AI investment and the core of Xiaomi’s future AI business. Xiaomi’s next step is to insert AI into every corner of the human and car ecosystem, so it is natural for Lei Jun to upgrade her to the highest rank.
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