Fuli Luo
Fuli Luo is an AI researcher with a natural language processing background who is publicly known in media reports as the lead of Xiaomi’s MiMo large language model. According to IT Home’s reporting, she was previously one of the key developers of DeepSeek-V2.
Background
- Education: According to her personal website, she earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Beijing Normal University (2013–2017) and a master’s degree at the Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University (2017–2020), co-advised by Zhifang Sui, Baobao Chang, and Xu Sun. A January 2026 IT Home report also introduces her as a 2017-cohort alumna of Peking University’s School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science.
- Early career: Her personal website records a research internship at WeChat AI from 2017 to 2019 (text style transfer, with two papers accepted by IJCAI 2019 and ACL 2019) and a machine learning engineering internship at Google Beijing starting in 2019.
- Joining Xiaomi: On November 12, 2025, according to IT Home (citing reporting by Yicai’s “Xinpiceng” and a screenshot posted by blogger @粮厂研究员Will), Luo announced in a WeChat Moments post that she had joined the Xiaomi MiMo LLM team, writing that “intelligence will eventually move from language to the physical world.” Reports describe her as one of the key developers of DeepSeek-V2, personally recruited by Lei Jun at a reported compensation level in the tens of millions of RMB — a figure from media reports, not an official disclosure. Xiaomi’s MiMo comes out of the “Xiaomi LLM Core team,” and the first reasoning-focused MiMo model was open-sourced in April 2025.
- Public appearances: In January 2026, she appeared as the Xiaomi MiMo LLM lead at “Yatunan: Peking University Young Alumni Talks, Session 1,” where she responded to the “AI genius girl” label media had given her, describing herself as an ordinary researcher.
Mention in the show
Fuli Luo did not take part in either of the two recorded episodes. In Weekly #001’s chapter on NAS as a home for personal AI context, Orange says in the Chinese transcript that “since Xiaomi’s Luo Fuli joined, their AI has been doing decently”. That is a host’s assessment. See the related Xiaomi entry.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Fuli Luo?
Fuli Luo is an AI researcher with an NLP background, publicly known in media reports as the lead of Xiaomi’s MiMo LLM and previously, according to reporting, one of the key developers of DeepSeek-V2.
What does Fuli Luo do at Xiaomi?
She leads the Xiaomi MiMo LLM team, part of the “Xiaomi LLM Core team,” which open-sourced the first MiMo reasoning model in April 2025. For the latest developments, see the Xiaomi brand page and Xiaomi’s official announcements.
What did Fuli Luo do before joining Xiaomi?
According to reporting, she was one of the key developers of DeepSeek-V2. Her earlier path is documented on her personal website: a master’s in computational linguistics at Peking University (2017–2020), with internships at WeChat AI and Google Beijing.
What about the “tens of millions of RMB salary” reports?
The claim comes from a late-2024 report by Yicai’s “Xinpiceng” (relayed by IT Home): Lei Jun personally recruited her at a compensation level in the tens of millions of RMB. The figure originates from anonymous media sources; neither Xiaomi nor Luo has officially disclosed an exact number.