On August 15, Xiaomi officially announced that as of the end of July, Xiao Ai’s monthly active devices exceeded 30 million. Xiao Ai woke up more than 1 billion times in July this year, and the cumulative wake-up has exceeded 5 billion times. With Xiaomi’s strong AI strength and product quick landing ability, since its release in March last year, Xiao Ai has ushered in an outbreak period and has become the most active artificial intelligence voice interaction platform in China. Xiaomi’s strong AI strength has paid off.
Lei Jun, founder, chairperson and CEO of Xiaomi Group, said: "As early as October 2016, we realized that the entire era has transitioned from the Internet era to the mobile Internet era to the era of artificial intelligence. We judge that the development of artificial intelligence strategy Xiaomi has many advantages: the support of rice noodles, a large number of end points, and a long time emphasis on Cloud as a Service and big data. In the future, artificial intelligence will be the core strategy of Xiaomi, to fully empower Xiaomi’s intelligent hardware and internet services, and help the company have strong competitiveness and new growth points in the future development."
Xiao Ai students empower Xiaomi full range of products
Cui Baoqiu, vice president of Xiaomi artificial intelligence and cloud platform, has repeatedly mentioned the three major advantages of Xiaomi’s AI technology, namely the advantages of hardware products, the advantages of big data, and the advantages of the extensive and deep layout of the ecological chain. Some AI technologies currently launched by Xiaomi, such as automatic speech recognition, scene recognition of AI cameras, and intelligent beauty, have received unanimous praise from users. Not long ago, Xiaomi also open-sourced its own mobile end deep learning framework, Mobile AI Compute Engine (MACE). Industry developers can use MACE’s powerful artificial intelligence acceleration technology to get more interesting and powerful applications in AI photography, AI image processing, intelligent object recognition, intelligent interaction, machine translation, etc. Empower China’s artificial intelligence industry and promote the implementation and application of AI technology in the Chinese industry. In Xiaomi, AI technology has a large number of application scenarios, from automatic speech recognition, NLP (natural language processing), to vision, Knowledge Graph and other technologies, there is a broad space for development. AI is everywhere in Xiaomi. With Xiao Ai as the core, Xiaomi AI has fully empowered Xiaomi’s various series of products. Xiao Ai has supported hundreds of Xiaomi and Xiaomi ecological chain products such as Xiaomi mobile phones, Xiaomi TVs, Xiao Ai speakers, children’s watches, children’s story machines, translators, car rearview mirrors, smart watches, etc.
In March 2017, the world’s first artificial intelligence voice TV – Xiaomi TV 4A was released, and Xiao Ai was officially launched. As of the end of July 2018, Xiao Ai’s monthly active devices have exceeded 30 million, waking up more than 1 billion times per month, and the cumulative waking has exceeded 5 billion times. Xiao Ai can control TV, sweeping robots, rice cookers, desk lamps, air conditioners and other smart homes; you can listen to music, check the weather, translate, chat and other daily applications; Xiao Ai students in the mobile phone can also make calls, information search, open APP, navigation, voice setting schedule reminders and other exclusive applications. Xiao Ai students have become an indispensable part of life. As Xiao Ai students continue to develop their skills, they will also have thousands of skills such as ordering coffee, buying movie tickets, sending express deliveries, and ordering songs.
Xiao Ai’s capabilities have covered nearly 100 sub-fields such as content, tools, and interaction. Third-party developers can also easily develop voice skills and voice services in various application scenarios through the Xiao Ai open API, bringing more practical skills to Xiao Ai and making Xiao Ai richer and more interesting. At the same time, the platform also allows developers to access intelligent hardware devices. Xiaomi hopes to integrate the strengths of each company, let more developers access it, and work together to really make artificial intelligence services. In the future, Xiao Ai will be everywhere, omnipotent, and shadow.
Xiaomi rapidly advances AI technology and empowers China’s artificial intelligence industry
Whether it is ordinary users or industry insiders, Xiao Ai has won widespread praise for its good experience. At the China International Big Data Industry Expo in Guiyang in May this year, Xiao Ai won the "2018 Leading Science and Technology Achievement Award · Black Technology" and "2018 Leading Science and Technology Achievement Award · New Product" double awards, which have been recognized by authoritative fields. Xiao Ai’s widely praised students reflect Xiaomi’s powerful AI technology.
In recent years, with Xiaomi’s rich technical accumulation in the field of "CBA" (cloud computing – big data – artificial intelligence), Xiaomi’s AI technical strength is growing rapidly. Xiao Ai’s vigorous development is due to Xiaomi’s strong AI strength: first, voice technology, including Keyword Spotting, automatic speech recognition, Text To Speech; secondly, natural language processing, natural language understanding, and behind the search and recommendation, intelligent Q & A, chat, etc.; finally, Knowledge Graph, content acquisition and understanding, Xiao Ai students can answer various questions, it is from the mastery of various knowledge.
It is understood that in just 8 years, Xiaomi has become the world’s fourth largest smartphone manufacturer, built the world’s largest consumer IoT platform, connecting more than 100 million smart devices. With the rapid implementation of AI technology, more and more smart devices will have Xiao Ai’s figure.
Xiao Ai has become a new growth pole for Xiaomi’s mobile Internet business
Traffic is king in the mobile Internet era. Hardware, internet service, and new retail are Xiaomi’s original "triathlon" business model. As an Internet company, Xiaomi has the advantage of low-cost traffic acquisition through well-priced and touching products. At present, Xiaomi MIUI has more than 300 million users and monthly active users exceed 900 million, becoming the main source of Xiaomi Internet revenue. Xiao Ai’s monthly active devices exceed 30 million, growing Xiaomi’s mobile Internet business as a new growth pole, and the future imagination is unlimited.
At present, the global artificial intelligence industry is in the ascendant, and the accumulation of technology and product practice are still on the eve of the outbreak. Whether it is a rookie in the industry or a large enterprise, they are all racing. As an emerging Internet company, Xiaomi takes user experience as the king, promotes technological innovation and landing with products, and relies on hundreds of millions of users and leading business models. It is bound to become an innovative practice representative of China’s artificial intelligence industry and promote the development of artificial intelligence industry.
