Nowadays, 'Openness' has become the consensus of the entire Chinese Internet, and almost all Internet companies have unveiled the relevant opening strategies without exception when they hold their annual general meeting.
On November 28, at the first Xiaomi IoT Developer Conference, Xiaomi announced that its IoT (Internet of Things) platform has over 85 million networked devices, over 10 million daily active devices and over 400 partners. "Xiaomi has been the largest in the world Smart hardware IoT platform. "Lei Jun, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi, said on the same day.
Developers Conference, Lei Jun officially announced the millet IoT developer program.According to the 21st Century Business Herald, the program will mainly serve intelligent home appliances, smart appliances, smart wearable devices, intelligent automotive devices and other intelligent hardware and its developers .
It is reported that in addition to provide millet network module, cloud platform, APP remote control, data cloud storage, OTA, user accounts and other hardware and software services, but also to partners open interoperability of devices, millet user groups, millet AI control millet Chip, there are goods such as mall millet characteristics of resources.
In fact, Xiaomi IoT has been adopting an open, non-exclusive and non-exclusive cooperation strategy since its formal disclosure of the IoT strategy in early 2015. As of November 2017, Xiaomi IoT has provided services including China Mobile, Microsoft Xiaobing, Siemens, Philips, Supor, more than 400 partners at the same time, through the joint development with the millet IoT, purple rice, rice, rice, rice, ninebot, ants and other Xiaomi ecological chain companies have also ranks among the unicorn company.
Xiaoguang, vice president of millet ecological chain, head of the millet IoT platform Gao Ziguang said that in the past two years although IoT is recognized as the mainstream direction, but because it is still in its infancy, the platform access standards are not uniform, it is difficult to achieve Shasha into a tower. The plan is to help third-party brand intelligent hardware products and current rapid integration of millet IoT products, to achieve linkage control.
It is worth mentioning that, on the day of the conference, President Lu Qi of COG and Baidu COO Lu Qi came to the conference as a mysterious guest.He announced in his speech that Baidu has reached deep cooperation with Xiaomi and both sides will jointly explore new forms of artificial intelligence products.
In June of this year, Lu Qi had visited Millet's House. In addition to watching the products such as millet TV and millet phone, he also discussed the development trend of artificial intelligence with Lei Jun in depth.
For millet, artificial intelligence has risen to the company's most important strategy.Xiao Cuiqiu, Xiaomi chief architect, artificial intelligence and cloud platform vice president, said that thanks to the huge size of mobile phones and smart hardware users, millet is not just a mobile Internet Company, is a big data company, an AI company AI technology in millet products has a very broad application space, speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing, computer vision, deep learning, and even robot-related technologies in millet are May be used.
In July of this year, Xiaomi released the first AI smart speaker "Little Love Classmate." The performance of this product exceeded the expectation of the Xiaomi team. Lei Jun also suggested that in the past, the Xiaomi IoT was a smart phone as the core connection device, and now New entrances have appeared, artificial intelligence speakers.
And cooperation with Baidu, no doubt that millet in the technology research and development have a greater imagination. Lu Qi said that Baidu's AI layout focused on the platform and the ecological, the AI capabilities to open more partners is also Baidu is Things to do.
For the cooperation with Millet, Luki believes that the combination of IoT and AI will open a new starting point for the whole industry. "Because AI and IoT are perfect complements and perfect combination in essence from the nature of technology and industrial innovation '
However, there are also industry insiders questioned the cooperation between Baidu and Xiaomi because at Baidu World Congress in 2017, Baidu Intelligent Home Hardware Division also released a smart speaker if the two sides had a direct competitive relationship in the product, the technical The prospects for cooperation are also worrying.
In addition, eyeing 'IoT + AI' is also a lot of opponents this year during the double 11, Alibaba way through price subsidies, pre-sold one million smartphones 'Lynx Wizard', all of a sudden the terminal entrance rose to Millions of level.Mu Yun this year conference, Ma also stressed the importance of cutting-edge technologies such as AI, therefore, millet IoT in the open road, will still face a lot of tests.