Luo Yonghao's latest entrepreneurial direction focuses on the field of AIOS (AI system), and this decision marks another bold attempt in the field of technology. According to "Smart Emergence", Luo Yonghao finally turned his attention to AIOS after exploring multiple fields such as live e-commerce, AR and AI assistants. In order to promote this project, he successfully poached the top 50 Xiaomi employees and senior expert in the operating system field, which undoubtedly injected strong technical strength into the research and development of AIOS.
It is worth noting that Luo Yonghao did not choose to re-found the company, but instead continued to develop his business based on the company that previously engaged in AR products, The Red Line. This strategy not only saves resources, but also makes full use of the technical accumulation of existing teams. Luo Yonghao's interest in AIOS has long been revealed. He once publicly stated that the ultimate goal of developing AIOS is to return to the hardware track, and plans to build AIOS first and then launch AI phones. Wang Wenjun's joining provides important support for this plan. As the chief architect of Xiaomi MIUI, he has deeply participated in the birth and development of MIUI systems, and his experience will provide valuable guidance for the research and development of AIOS.
Although the head of AIOS is in place, the main R&D force of The Red Line team is still concentrated on the beta AI assistant J1Assistant, which was launched in early January. When Luo Yonghao founded The Red Line in 2022, he received an angel round of financing of about US$50 million, and investors include well-known institutions such as Meituan Dragon Ball, DJI Innovation and Jingwei. However, its AR glasses project has not been launched for a long time, but instead launched J1Assistant, an AI assistant with a very "hammer style" UI interface, in early 2024.
J1Assistant is an aggregated AI assistant integrating voice interaction, task management and intelligent search. Luo Yonghao plans to use it as a system capability to deeply integrate it with the operating system. However, the beta version responded mediocrely and failed to achieve the expected results. An investor revealed that Luo Yonghao hopes to support subsequent financing through products integrating the concept of "AI Agent", but the current progress is not ideal. J1Assistant was developed by the company's CTO Zhu Yongsheng. Luo Yonghao was not satisfied with the product and repeatedly pushed it back and made it, showing his high standards for the product.
Industry insiders analyzed that the operating system is an underlying system project and requires huge R&D investment and support from a professional technical team. Luo Yonghao hopes that the release of AI assistant products can support the second round of financing, so the next month is a key window. If financing can be successfully raised, AIOS research and development and AI mobile phone planning are expected to be smoothly promoted. Whether Luo Yonghao's AIOS project can succeed depends not only on the R&D capabilities of the technical team, but also on the market's acceptance of its products and capital support.