Xiaohongshu recently issued a company-wide letter announcing the integration of its internal AI division, Dots, with the core infrastructure team to achieve synergy among models, infrastructure, and product requirements. According to the letter, this adjustment aims to establish a more complete and efficient AI technology system from the perspectives of technical architecture, infrastructure, and engineering systems, enhancing resource collaboration and innovation efficiency. The letter clearly states that as a technology application company, Xiaohongshu's positioning fundamentally differs from that of cloud vendors in model development, emphasizing that the deep integration of models and applications is more important than merely pursuing model capabilities or computational scale. The mutual enhancement between technology and products is intended to create valuable user experiences.
The terms "product" and "user" were the most frequently mentioned in the letter.
Over the past two years, Xiaohongshu has continuously invested in building its AI technology capabilities. On the product front, an AI question-and-answer assistant will be launched on the platform in 2024, with monthly active users exceeding 100 million, boosting overall search activity. In terms of research and development, Xiaohongshu established hi lab (Humanistic Intelligence Laboratory) in early 2025 and created the position of "Humanistic Trainer" to enhance AI performance in humanized expression and value alignment through post-training. In April 2026, Xiaohongshu formed the internal AI division Dots team, combining model development with infrastructure construction to initially establish an AI technology system and integrate computational resources.
Xiaohongshu Integrates AI Department to Enhance Technical Collaboration Efficiency
The Dots team has successively open-sourced text and multimodal understanding models, with its dots3 model, focused on long-term tasks in real life, achieving a perfect score gold medal certified by the IMO International Mathematical Olympiad. This adjustment also clarifies the positioning of hi lab: focusing on long-term technological exploration and laying out cutting-edge technological directions. The letter indicates that the goal is to establish an organization that continuously creates value for products while maintaining technological originality for the future.