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Xiaomi Pushes AI Frontiers Amid Legal Undercurrents

Xiaomi Pushes AI Frontiers Amid Legal Undercurrents May/03/2026

Xiaomi is advancing its artificial intelligence strategy with MiMo-V2.5-Pro, a trillion-parameter model designed for complex, long-horizon tasks and increasingly autonomous, tool-driven workflows. Built on a hybrid-attention architecture with an expansive context window, the system reflects a broader shift toward agentic AI. Yet alongside this technological momentum, the company faces procedural challenges in intellectual property. A recent EU cancellation action against one of Xiaomi’s international trademarks was rejected not on substance, but on timing: the mark had been published for less than five years, falling short of the minimum period required to claim non-use under EU law, rendering the request inadmissible.