It’s important for smartphone manufacturers to focus on research and development to keep on evolving intentionally. Moving on par with the above saying, Xiaomi is effectively innovating to bring advancements in its smartphones and other smart devices. Now, Xiaomi CEO reveals that Xiaomi is ranked 11th in the world for AI patents applications, beating Huawei and Qualcomm.
Xiaomi ranking in AI research has improved a lot, as it moved from 85th place to 11th within a year, confirms Cui Baoqiu, Xiaomi’s chairman of the Technical Committee via Weibo. It applied for 684 patents in the AI field within the past 12 months reveals Lei Jun while congratulating Xiaomi AI department.
Cui Baoqiu is an AI expert who has extended its expertise to IBM, Yahoo, LinkedIn and is now actively heading Xiaomi Artificial Intelligence Department. As per official documents, he directly reports to CEO Lei Jun and is the vice president of the group and heads its technical committee as chairman.
According to official data from Nikkei Chinese network, Xiaomi stands second next to Baidu in domestic enterprise rankings. Xiaomi is keen to invest 10 billion Yuan in the next five years to create excellent AIOT products. In 2018, the Chinese giant invested around 4 Billion Yuan to boost up the AI development. Unsurprisingly, IBM, Microsoft, and Google are still leading the AI development with maximum patent applications coming from their side.
In Q3 2018, Xiaomi reported 132 million shipments of IoT consumer products, and around 100 million units were actively using Xiao AI Assistant. Xiaomi will surely benefit from this big leap in the AI industry in over next few years.
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