"Star Market Daily" News on October 30th (Reporter Tang Zhixiao): 'In the 3rd month since the listing of Xiaomi Autos, deliveries have exceeded 0.01 million units. As of now, the monthly delivery volume for October has reached 0.02 million units, and it is expected to achieve the annual delivery target of 0.1 million vehicles in November in advance.' Lei Jun, Chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, officially presented the latest developments of the Xiaomi 15 series, the Xiaomi Surging OS 2.0 (HyperOS 2.0) operating system, and Xiaomi Autos at the Xiaomi 15 series and Xiaomi Surging OS 2 new product launch event.

According to Xiaomi Group's Vice President and CMO Xu Fei, the Xiaomi 15 series has removed the previous entry-level 8+128GB configuration, and the starting price has correspondingly increased to 4499 yuan. The updated Surging OS 2.0 further enhances ecological interconnection by opening up screen sharing to Apple products, supporting the opening of Apple-exclusive file formats, and introducing new features.

The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra made its official debut at this launch event, with a pre-sale price exceeding 0.81 million yuan, making it the most expensive single product of Xiaomi. Lei Jun stated that after the pre-sale of Xiaomi SU7 Ultra started, orders exceeded 3680 units within 10 minutes.

Xiaomi 15 series prices have increased across the board, and 'Super Xiaoai' has entered the era of 'multimodal' interaction.

Entering the third quarter of 2024, brand owners are concentrating on releasing flagship phones, including Apple, Huawei, vivo, and OPPO. Once again, Xiaomi has secured the launch of the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 ultimate chip.

Lei Jun previously mentioned on Weibo that in order to fully demonstrate the capabilities of edge AI, he decided to discontinue the 8GB version. The Xiaomi 15 series has seen improvements in design, performance consumption, battery life performance, and user experience. Therefore, this generation of Xiaomi 15 series starts with a storage specification of 12+256GB, and the starting price has been raised by 300 yuan to 4499 yuan.

Reporters learned that the entire Xiaomi 15 series uses the jointly developed M9 luminescent material from Huaxing Optoelectronics, while the Xiaomi Pad7 series is supplied jointly by TCL Huaxing and Visionox. In addition, the entire Xiaomi 15 series is equipped with an ultrasonic fingerprint solution. Shenzhen Goodix Technology officially announced that the solution is provided by the company and the newly released Xiaomi Watch S4 and Xiaomi Mi Band 9 Pro also use Goodix Technology health sensors. It is reported that since the beginning of this year, Shenzhen Goodix Technology's ultrasonic fingerprint solution has been successfully commercialized in various models including vivo, Xiaomi, and iQOO.

Lu Weibing previously stated publicly that all the so-called AI phones released so far are AI Feature phones, which means that AI technology has been used to implement some AI functions. The true AI phone is equipped with an operating system reconstructed based on a large AI model, and Xiaomi's Surge OS 2.0 is responsible for this mission.

The new iteration of Surge OS revolves around the "full ecosystem AI smart assistant." In sync with Surge OS 2.0, the Super Xiaoai incorporates Xiaomi's self-developed HyperAI edge-cloud AI subsystem, enabling multi-modal intelligent interaction.

According to Jin Fan, Vice President of Xiaomi's Mobile Phone Division, the Super Xiaoai can help users complete tasks such as memorization, searching, and filling in information, including intelligent extraction and local storage of documents, schedules, etc. It can also perform global searches on photos, documents, and videos, and carry out some complex operations on behalf of the user.

As for Xiaomi's HyperConnect, it also integrates with Apple devices. Apple users can install the "Xiaomi Interconnected Services" to transfer files between iPhone and Xiaomi phones, share Xiaomi phone screens on Mac computers, and access Apple-specific document formats.

In recent years, Xiaomi has not only been a smartphone manufacturer but has also ventured into the development and release of various types of ecological devices, spanning a wide range from sockets, televisions, air conditioners, refrigerators to washing machines. According to Xiaomi's latest performance report, the number of IoT devices connected to the Xiaomi platform has reached 0.655 billion units, a year-on-year increase of 25.6%.

At this launch event, Xiaomi unveiled a range of smart home appliances including the 1.5-horsepower Xiaomi air conditioner with upward air outlets, the dual-zone washing and drying washing machine, and the Mini LED series Xiaomi televisions.

According to Xu Fei, Xiaomi has established a Smart Home Appliance Research Center in Wuhan, with a total investment of 0.12 billion RMB and a total area exceeding 0.01 million square meters. It is a comprehensive product development base integrating research, testing, and office functions.

Lei Jun stated that Xiaomi is expected to invest over 24 billion in research and development this year, with a projected amount of 30 billion yuan by 2025, continuing to invest in foundational technologies such as AI, OS, and chips.

The presale price exceeds 0.81 million, Lei Jun stated "fully leading ahead of the Porsche Taycan".

Another major highlight of this press conference is the new direction of Xiaomi autos. According to Lei Jun, the nationwide city navigation of Xiaomi autos will start full push, while the end-to-end + VLM visual language large model Xiaomi intelligent driving will achieve "from parking space to parking space", targeted invitation for internal testing at the end of November, and pioneer version push at the end of December.

The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra mass-produced car also officially debuted at this press conference. It is introduced that the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra uses a super three-electric machine system, 1548PS super horsepower, 0-100 acceleration in 1.98s, design maximum speed of 350km/h, and carbon fiber material used in 17 places totaling 3.74m² including on the roof and steering wheel.

At the conference, Lei Jun stated that the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra prototype achieved the fastest four-door car in the history of the Nürburgring track with a time of 6 minutes 46.874 seconds. "Our Xiaomi SU7 Ultra mass-produced car was tuned on the Nürburgring track. After the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra mass-produced car is released next year, it will challenge the Nürburgring track again."

At the press conference, Lei Jun also showcased the performance parameters of the industry benchmark Porsche Taycan Turbo GT, and stated that Xiaomi SU7 Ultra comprehensively leads in parameters. "Xiaomi SU7 Ultra will come standard with a track package, will benchmark against Model S Plaid, presale price is 0.8149 million yuan, scheduled for official release in March 2025, with an intention fee of 0.01 million yuan, and can be refunded anytime after formal release."

Furthermore, it was noted that after the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra started presale, it broke through 3680 units in 10 minutes.

In addition, as of the morning before the press conference, Xiaomi autos SU7 achieved monthly deliveries of over 20,000 units, surpassing Model 3 in a single month.

Editor / jayden