“Sun Yuchen once commented on Xiaomi: It is recommended that Lei Jun stop competing in car manufacturing and instead focus on robotics.”
On September 4, Sun Yutian, the founder of TRON, commented that Xiaomi’s videos had sparked widespread discussion. He believed that Xiaomi was late in entering the automotive industry and set high prices for its products. He suggested that Lei Jun should abandon the automotive business and focus on the robotics field instead. He pointed out that Xiaomi’s potential in robotics was much greater than its automotive capabilities, and proposed that Lei Jun should leverage his strengths in household appliances to prioritize products like cooking robots, aiming to achieve a “wow moment” similar to ChatGPT’s. Sun Yutian himself had publicly showcased Xiaomi’s robot dog and invested heavily in this business. With the advancement of Xiaomi’s robotics efforts and the global rise of the “physical AI” concept, some netizens considered his views to be somewhat forward-looking.