The international version of the new flagship Xiaomi smartphone will receive support for Google Gemini

Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi is working with Google to integrate the large Gemini language model into the manufacturer’s new flagship phone aimed at the international market.

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«Glad to be working with Google on future Xiaomi flagship devices for international markets. Using Google Cloud and Gemini, we are going to offer smarter and more intuitive features,” Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun wrote on social network X after the announcement made at the two-day Google I/O Connect China event in Beijing, which ended last year. Thursday.

Xiaomi 15 smartphones are expected to be launched this year. There have been no messages yet about the intention to integrate any large language models into the Chinese version of the devices, but it is known that Xiaomi has developed its own MiLM model – the relevant documents appeared with regulators back in May. Google’s Gemini system, like many other foreign AI services, is not available in mainland China, where local authorities test them before releasing them to the public.

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A joint project with Google can give Xiaomi a certain impetus in the international market – the company, according to IDC analysts, in the second quarter became the third smartphone supplier in the world with a 14.8% market share. The first and second were Samsung and Apple with shares of 18.8% and 15.8%, respectively. Global shipments of smartphones in the second quarter grew by 6.5% year-on-year and reached 285.4 million units, IDC added.

Apple intends to integrate its own Apple Intelligence system into its iPhones this year, but in China the company is expected to use the services of a local AI solution provider. The Galaxy AI feature package that arrived on Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S24 this year is based on Google’s Gemini technology, and in China it will be replaced by Baidu’s larger Ernie language model.

Google Gemini technologies are also being integrated into the international version of its flagship by the Chinese Oppo – together with Vivo, it takes fourth place in the global smartphone market with a 9% market share. At the last event, Oppo already demonstrated features based on Gemini: real-time translation, article summaries and multimodal content generation. Gemini features are already available on the international version of Oppo Reno12 and will be improved this year.