Jain, who previously led Xiaomi’s India operations, G42, through its subsidiary company, Inception, invested “millions of dollars” to develop this Indic LLM. He said the LLM will launch commercially in India in 4-5 months.
Manu Jain had earlier served as the India managing director for Xiaomi, and since 2017, he was the company's global vice president.
Jain said Xiaomi focussed on three factors for its premium range -- great specs and premium design, cutting-edge technology and a consumer experience that is free of ads and recommendations.
Xiaomi, which entered India in 2014 and sold smartphones exclusively online, had ventured into offline retail in 2017. Apart from Mi Stores, Xiaomi also operates its own chain of more than 75 Mi Homes, 45-plus Mi Studios and over 8,000 Mi Preferred Partners (through franchise model).
Chinese mobile handset manufacturer Xiaomi is likely to soon procure licence to operate its own branded outlets in India, as part of its effort to increase its offline distribution in coming years, company's top executive said here today.
Last year, the company sold more than half a million phones in 30 days during the month of October.
"For us, online is the dominant channel and we are trying to build a base for offline in India. We had a partnership with Redington last year (for distribution) and four weeks back, tied up with Innocomm and Just Buy Live," Xiaomi India Head Manu Jain said here.
The compact Mi air-purifier was first showcased in China in November 2015 when it was touted to be priced at around Rs 7,000 based on Chinese pricing.
However, the sales numbers are in contrast to data shared by research firm Counterpoint Research which in a report said Xiaomi had seen a drop in shipments sequentially due to fierce competition from Lenovo and Micromax's Yu.
Xiaomi, a Chinese low-cost smartphone manufacturer, is the third largest smartphone-maker in the world.
Xiaomi, which currently sells devices in India through homegrown eCommerce major Flipkart, will bring in its website 'Mi.com' to India in the latter part of the year.