Although 2020 is a very special year, Xiaomi today gave rise to the MIDC 2020 Developer Conference, at the Xiaomi Technology Park in Beijing, an event that every year focuses on reporting precious data to company members, employees and to its affiliates, thus revealing plans for the future in terms of research and development, software and more.
Lei Jun, founder, president and CEO of Xiaomi Group, said that the photography department of the brand boasts a team of almost 1000 people located in the various research and development centers, located in nine locations, including Beijing, Tokyo, Paris and Santiago. Overall, the R&D team has more than 10000 people and in 2021, Xiaomi intends to recruit another 5000 engineers to support and improve the department.
Lei Jun, through a post on the official WeChat account, shared the debut of the new intelligent assistant XiaoAI arrived at version 5.0, as well as the debut of the new Wake Up Near technologies and personalized dynamic voice recognition. Xiaomi therefore materializes as the number one company in AI technology, but MIUI 13?
Unlike what the rumors had indicated, the company during MIDC 2020 did not make any mention of the future system interface, also because at the moment the developers are under pressure to correct the many bugs that are afflicting the current MIUI 12 , as well as having to complete the release rollout on some devices.
Xiaomi MIDC 2020: here are the details of the brand's annual conference
We have long talked about the successes that Xiaomi has achieved despite the difficult period, while continuing to conquer the market, increasing the positions in the sales ranking of smartphone manufacturers. And it starts from a third place, to decree as a goal for the future, the achievement of the first position in the standings. A goal that will depend on many factors and which is rather ambitious considering rivals such as Samsung and Huawei, which hold a large share in the global market.
Here are the statements that Lei Jun made during the MIDC 2020 annual conference:
First, Xiaomi will continue to strengthen investment in research and development. Xiaomi turns 10 this year and is still a very young company, its investment in research and development will exceed 10 billion yuan. All this has led Xiaomi to become among the top 20 Chinese companies to invest in the research and development sector.
Secondly, Xiaomi has always placed importance on building the talent pool. Talents are the source of innovation and the first step to improving technical strength is to bring together the best talent.
Let's take the technology used in cameras for example. When the photography department was founded in 2018, there were only 122 engineers. Today, the number of engineers in the photography department has reached 826, an almost 6-fold increase. This doesn't include the more than 350 engineers who support AI cameras. When we create a research and development center for cameras, we look to the world and we create research and development centers where there are talents. To this end, we have set up nine research and development centers in Beijing, Paris, Tokyo, San Diego and other cities for a total of 5 international research and development centers.
Engineers are Xiaomi's most important asset. Our goal is to create the best working environment, enabling engineers to unleash their creativity, inspire their inherent potential and motivation for lasting innovation and create the conditions for innovative and young teams. Over the next ten years, one of my wishes is to keep working hard to make Xiaomi a mecca for engineers.
This year, the epidemic has affected all walks of life, but Xiaomi has launched the largest talent recruitment ever done. In 2020, the company recruited a total of 2252 university students, of which 1470 graduates.
In 2021, Xiaomi will hire 5000 engineers, representing over 20% of Xiaomi's current total employees. In the future, we will continue to add new talent, who will build a world-class global technical team to make Xiaomi the leading tech company in the world.
It is palpable how Lei Jun's words are positive and encouraging for the future and perhaps it transpires that something big is already boiling in the pot. We hope the company achieves its goal and can offer users many improvements and a more stable system for their home automation environment and MIUI interface.
