Global technology giant Xiaomi announced Xiaomi HyperOS, which focuses on four main goals: Low-Level Refactoring, Peer-to-Peer Intelligent Connection, Proactive Intelligence and End-to-End Security. Promising a brand new user experience, Xiaomi HyperOS will come pre-installed on the newly launched Xiaomi 14 Series, Xiaomi Watch S3, Xiaomi TV S Pro 85″ MiniLED and other devices offered in China.
Unleashing the full potential of devices
Xiaomi has achieved remarkable growth over the past 13 years, from just 100 users to 1.175 billion users worldwide and a product line spanning more than 200 categories. In the age of the Internet of Things, Xiaomi has faced the complexity of multiple device operating systems.
This experience pushed Xiaomi to make unprecedented innovations and Xiaomi HyperOS emerged. Xiaomi HyperOS, which has been in development since 2017 and is designed to bring consistency to the IoT environment, unites all ecosystem devices within the framework of a single integrated system. With the new operating system, Xiaomi aims to maximize device performance, make the user experience more consistent and ensure that all Xiaomi devices can be connected smoothly.
Xiaomi 14 family and HyperOS introduced!
Xiaomi 14 introduced Xiaomi 14 Pro, Pure Titanium Xiaomi 14 Pro and the new operating system HyperOS software. We have summarized all the innovations for you.
It provides flexible configuration, operation and deployment in accordance with hardware requirements. Memory requirements for compatible devices can vary from as small as 64 KB to as large as 24 GB.
Adhering to the principle of configuring only the necessary resources according to the changing hardware, along with file deduplication and compression of the underlying IO stack, Xiaomi HyperOS takes up very little space. As a significant improvement compared to its competitors, it takes up only 8.75 GB of space in the system on smartphones.
Xiaomi HyperOS includes advanced scheduling features that can accurately manage hardware and tasks in various and complex scenarios. This is achieved through technical tools such as dynamic thread priority setting and dynamic duty cycle evaluation, resulting in optimal performance and power efficiency.
Running resource-intensive games on a smartphone equipped with Xiaomi HyperOS provides a more stable frame rate and lower power consumption compared to stock Android and other heavily customized operating systems. On lightweight devices with limited processing power, the timing advantages of Xiaomi HyperOS become even more obvious.
It supports splitting tasks across multiple computing units for collaborative operations that maximize hardware performance. In addition, with Xiaomi HyperOS, technical modules including the file system, memory management, imaging subsystem and network system have been comprehensively restructured. In this way, it is aimed to efficiently benefit from and optimize the changing hardware capabilities of different devices, thus providing optimum performance.
End-to-end intelligent connectivity: HyperConnect takes connectivity to the next level!
Focusing on providing high performance, Xiaomi HyperOS also eliminates the limitations of traditional system architectures. At its core, HyperConnect, an innovative End-to-End Intelligent Connectivity structure, takes the lead by facilitating real-time networking between countless devices.
With the introduction of the integrated device center, users can now actively control almost all of their connected devices. Thus, they can effortlessly monitor and manage their interconnected ecosystems from anywhere, whether at home, on the road or in the office. This heralds a new era of convenience and efficiency for users, seamlessly identifying and operating all devices included in the Xiaomi ecosystem.
Xiaomi HyperOS makes all connected devices compatible, allowing the software to adapt to user needs. Users can seamlessly switch camera sources during video conferencing, access dash cams from their phones, access their smartphone’s rear camera while using a tablet or laptop, and even connect their tablet to the internet via their smartphone. Additionally, apps, clipboard content, and notifications can be easily moved between devices as users need.
Proactive intelligence enables devices to understand users’ intentions
In the age of the Internet of Things, cross-device connectivity and capability integration are of great importance. Xiaomi HyperOS takes this one step further by adding an AI subsystem that supports advanced AI technologies, allowing devices to proactively assist users.
HyperMind, the cognitive hub of Xiaomi’s device ecosystem, brings pioneering cross-device connections into the era of ‘proactive intelligence’. This enables devices to proactively understand user needs and act accordingly. HyperMind uses four sensory attributes of devices—environment, vision, sound, and behavior—to learn user needs and automatically adapt devices to their needs.
For example, if a user always turns on the living room light after unlocking the smart door, HyperMind learns this pattern and automatically lights up the room after receiving the user’s consent.
This innovation simplifies complex cross-device connectivity while reducing the costs of traditional machine learning and allowing users to enjoy the convenience of device connectivity without needing to understand complex logic or triggering mechanisms.
Xiaomi HyperOS uses large base models, allowing them to power system applications. Xiaomi AI Assistant now provides direct access to large base model text generation capabilities via the user interface, enabling tasks such as speech generation and article summarization.
Real-time captioning turns video conference conversations into notes and smart meeting summaries. Users can use spoken phrases to search for images in photo albums and create AI images based on existing portraits.
The tablet version of the “Mi Canvas” app adds an AI brush that can turn ordinary doodles into exquisite works of art. Additionally, third-party applications can leverage the potential of the AI subsystem, such as understanding documents through screenshots within WPS or creating presentations with a single command.
Xiaomi HyperOS leverages AI subsystem to integrate large base models into the device NPU to efficiently deploy them. This support extends to large base models of Xiaomi’s smartphones, exemplified by its self-developed imaging base model, which reduces model size and memory usage by 75% and reduces drawing time from 100 seconds to just 5 seconds.
These advanced rendering capabilities already enhance Xiaomi AI Assistant’s features such as “Text to Image” and “Image Extender” in device photo albums.
End-to-End Security protects users in all scenarios
Xiaomi, which attaches great importance to user privacy and security, continues to make improvements in user experience without interruption. Xiaomi’s own developed TEE forms the basis of the security subsystem.
Designed specifically to protect sensitive information, this isolated security system runs on specialized hardware and covers a variety of security features such as biometrics, password and screen lock for smartphones, AIoT devices and other solutions.
Xiaomi HyperOS pays great attention to security and extends the scope of protection not only to individual devices but also to interconnected security modules. This interconnected security module-based TEE ensures mutual trust between devices within the network. Xiaomi HyperOS further secures the entire network by using end-to-end encryption via TEE for data transmission between devices.
Building the ecosystem together
With Xiaomi HyperOS, Xiaomi actively develops an open software ecosystem, adhering to the principle of open source, and invites partners to shape an intelligent ecosystem and create a better user experience together.
Xiaomi also announced that Xiaomi Vela, an IoT software platform designed specifically for consumer IoT products, has been open sourced. This platform, independently developed by Xiaomi, is based on the open source NuttX real-time operating system.
Xiaomi Vela simplifies development by providing a uniform software platform across various IoT hardware, abstracting away key hardware differences and providing a common software interface for high-end developers.
This approach combines different application scenarios, simplifies development and increases efficiency. By making Xiaomi Vela open source to IoT device manufacturers and developers, Xiaomi is driving IoT device innovation, improving performance and providing real-time connectivity capabilities across a wide range of devices.
Xiaomi HyperOS, a human-centered operating system designed and adapted to connect personal devices, automobiles and smart home products in a smart ecosystem, stands out as an important step in Xiaomi’s strategic vision to realize the “Human x Car x Home” smart ecosystem.