Xiaomi could turn AI's 10x R&D speedup into a manufacturing superpower, argues researcher
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-22
A team estimates a 10x productivity gain from AI, cutting materials-science R&D cycles from one month to 2-3 days. Commentator teortaxesTex argues Xiaomi is the one to watch: not an LLM startup but a maker of everything, sitting on China's massive materials-research output and trained labor. Even if Claude/GPT think better, pairing frontier AI with industrial manufacturing could make such companies scary-capable fast — they need industrial AGI.
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