AI mobile phones, can it be made this year?

Recently, there have been several high-profile events in the AI community: Google's Gemini model is officially available for use, and OpenAI's yet-to-be-released Sora model has generated an AI video demo that has been dubbed the "world simulator" by many netizens (of course, it is still far away)......

Mobile phone hardware manufacturers are not idle, Samsung directly sent a mobile phone with AI selling point, Meizu announced that it would stop the development of traditional smartphones and switch to "All in AI", and OPPO also recently opened an AI strategy conference...... Heading into the new year, it seems that all smartphones are about to enter the era of AI.

So, is AI really going to enter each of our lives through mobile phones, and why is it through mobile phones instead of other hardware carriers?

The reason is very simple: close, daily - the mobile phone itself is the most popular digital terminal device in the world, more than half of the population on the earth has used smart phones, and many users do not leave their hands, eyes do not leave the screen, not to mention that smart phones almost condense the user's personal data, and AI is essentially a set of services, to reach individuals, mobile phones are naturally the most suitable carrier, so AI to smartphones as a carrier to popularize to individuals, it is natural.

OPPO can be said to be one of the most active mobile phone AI, AI strategy conference, Liu Zuohu also said that AI mobile phones, will be after feature phones, smart phones, the third major stage of change in the mobile phone industry, for this reason, OPPO is also committed to becoming a contributor and popularizer of AI mobile phones.

At this stage, in fact, some manufacturers have embedded AI functions in their mobile phones, such as language model chat, text, mapping, etc., and more advanced ones are map finding, retouching, etc. There is also OPPO's Spring Festival firmware update some time ago, which has added a lot of interesting AI functions to existing mobile phones, covering more than 10 million users, including the "AI elimination" function, which is said to have reached 15 times a day.

So, in the future, will the so-called "AI phone" just add AI services on the basis of this ordinary smartphone?

Of course not, here is a quote from IDC × OPPO's "AI Phone White Paper", AI phones need to have "efficient and usable computing power", "perception of the real world", as well as "self-learning ability" and "creativity".

First of all, hardware is very important, the mobile phone itself has enough AI computing power, and it must also have the ability to make efficient use of computing power, such as Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and MediaTek's Dimensity 9300 platform, both of which have invariably improved AI-related computing power, especially the Dimensity 9300 platform, the entire architecture of the APU has been optimized and updated for generative AI, and the computing speed in all aspects has been increased several times, and the power consumption has also decreased.

For example, the Find X7 with the Dimensity 9300 platform is said to be the first LLM large model mobile phone with 7 billion parameters on the end side, and its own AI hardware capabilities are quite online, and the user's light AI use needs are not much pressure to run locally on the end side, but some heavy needs, only local side deployment can not be satisfied, so OPPO uses the device side + cloud joint deployment solution, which is also the best AI solution for mobile phones at this stage, for this reason, its AndesGPT The model is deployed in three levels to meet the needs of different task volumes and response speeds, taking into account performance and efficiency.

In the cloud, OPPO has built an AI data center in Binhaiwan, Dongguan, and has deployed more than 10,000 servers at this stage, and it is said that the number of parameters of the pre-trained model has reached the level of 100 billion, and it will continue to expand in the future to provide computing power support.

The ability to perceive the real world needs to mobilize the various sensors of the mobile phone to restore the real world, and then hand it over to the back-end software and hardware processing to provide AI data variable input, etc., only when the reality is perceived, AI can make a more suitable execution result - for example, in the scene of answering the phone, the mobile phone can sense that the user is in a noisy environment through the sensor, and AI is combined with gyroscope, Sensors such as temperature sensors predict user behavior to automatically switch to hands-free mode or increase volume to optimize the call experience - of course, with the development of AI in the future, AI phones will also need to have more different types of sensors to meet the perception of the real world.

Self-learning and creativity are the foundation of the AI mobile phone experience - I think the three most effective functions of AI at this stage are "information acquisition", "creation", and "task execution and management". However, everyone's needs, and even everyone's needs in different scenarios and different states may be different, which requires AI to have the ability to perceive, learn by itself, and re-create - just like if you come to Genshin Impact for half an hour before going to bed every night, the AI phone can learn your work and usage habits, and preload the game in advance to improve the loading efficiency of the game.

OPPO's 1+N agent ecosystem strategy is based on different personalized needs - "1" refers to the OPPO AI superagent itself, which is like an engine that can provide and invoke different AI services, and this "N" can be refined to different scenarios for users or developers, whether it is information acquisition, creation, task execution and management, zero-code "pinching" its own AI intelligence and empowering the entire ecosystem of OPPO AI - it is a bit like OpenAI GPT Store can attract more third parties to join and improve the entire AI ecosystem.

So, will this year be the first year of AI mobile phones? I think yes, in addition to a few manufacturers that have already appeared, there will be more brands to join this ranks in the future, and OPPO's recent New Year AI function push, industry white paper released by IDC, etc., are telling us that their understanding of "AI mobile phones" and their enthusiasm for the future industry promotion. I wonder where the AI of mobile phones will go when we look back at the end of the year?