Luo Fuli Leads Xiaomi's MiMo After DeepSeek Stint

The original post, written in Japanese and posted on June 14, 2026, identifies Luo Fuli as the head of Xiaomi's large-scale model "MiMo" and notes her DeepSeek background and young age. Multiple independent sources confirm these core facts.

The South China Morning Post reported on November 12, 2025 that Luo Fuli had officially joined Xiaomi after leaving DeepSeek, where she was a key contributor to the V2 model. The Wikipedia entry on Xiaomi MiMo states that the model's development team was led by Luo Fuli, who had previously worked at DeepSeek before joining Xiaomi in late 2025. Baidu Baike's biographical entry corroborates this timeline, noting that she joined DeepSeek to work on the MoE large model DeepSeek-V2 and officially announced her move to Xiaomi as head of the MiMo Large Model in November 2025.

On the question of her age, Baidu Baike records that Luo Fuli was born in 1995 in Yibin, Sichuan Province. At the time of the post in June 2026, she would have been 30 or 31. Chinese media outlets, including the South China Morning Post, have consistently described her as a "prodigy" in the AI field, which aligns with the post's observation that she is remarkably young for her role.

The broader observation that China has many women making notable contributions in AI is a subjective impression rather than a verifiable claim, but the specific factual assertions about Luo Fuli's role, her DeepSeek background, and her youth are all well-documented.

Multiple independent sources, including a major English-language newspaper, an encyclopedia entry, and a detailed biographical database, all corroborate the central claims about Luo Fuli's role, background, and age.