India, May 2 -- Xiaomi has made a giant leap in the field of artificial intelligence with the open-sourcing of its initial specialist reasoning model, Xiaomi MiMo.

This historic 7B parameter model has already stirred the waters in the field of AI by outcompeting substantially larger rivals, such as OpenAI's closed-source o1-mini model and Alibaba's larger QwQ-Preview model with 32B parameters.

The model is a big win for Xiaomi's newly created Big Model Core Team and is proof of the company's increasing focus on pushing AI capabilities forward from hardware to innovative software development.

Breaking benchmarks with innovative reasoning

What is so remarkable about MiMo is its high performance on difficult reasoning tests compared to i...