Making with Milvus: AI-Powered News Recommendation Inside Xiaomi's Mobile Browser

Xiaomi, the multinational electronics manufacturer, has built an AI-powered news recommendation engine into its mobile web browser using Milvus, an open-source vector database. The application's core data management platform is designed for similarity search and artificial intelligence. This system uses AI to suggest personalized content and cut through the noise of news by recommending relevant articles based on user search history and interests. Xiaomi selected BERT as the language representation model in its recommendation engine, which can be used as a general natural language understanding (NLU) model for various natural language processing tasks. The AI-powered content recommendation system relies on three key components: vectorization, ID mapping, and approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) service.