Xiaomi open-sources audio AI model that can identify where sounds come from

Xiaomi has open-sourced MiDashengLM-Spatial, an audio-language model that combines general sound understanding with spatial awareness. The company released model weights and inference code under the Apache 2.0 license. Built on Xiaomi’s MiDashengLM audio model, the system processes binaural audio to identify sound sources and reason about their positions and spatial relationships. It retains capabilities such…