On the morning of October 10, the 2024 vivo Developer Conference (VDC) held its main venue event at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. This is vivo's 7th Developer Conference, and this year it was held in the same venue after returning to in-person events last year.
During the one-day event, in addition to the main venue speech in the morning, there were 7 offline sub-venues in the afternoon, including game ecology, artificial intelligence, Blue River operating system, and IoT open ecology, as well as 1 online sub-venue of Internet technology, which became an opportunity for intensive communication and pointed to the strategic direction and actual content of vivo and its ecology in the next stage.
In the main venue, vivo officially released a new AI strategy - "Blue Heart Intelligence", and at the same time brought a fully upgraded self-developed Blue Heart large model matrix, and also introduced OriginOS 5 (original system 5), Blue River operating system 2 (BlueOS 2), and vivo's latest achievements in security, humanities, and ecological cooperation.
This basically continues the content framework of the speeches at the main venue of last year's vivo developer conference (including the theme of "· together" is also the same as last year), and has taken a big step forward in all directions.
vivo released the "Blue Heart Intelligence" strategy, emphasizing the deep integration of large model technology and mobile phone operating systems
Last year, vivo launched its own technology brand "Blue Technology", which integrates blueprint images, blue ocean battery life systems, blue crystal chip technology stacks, blue heart large models and blue river operating systems, hoping to build a complete software and hardware integration capability, and at the same time at last year's developer conference, vivo also released its self-developed blue heart large model matrix for the first time, and began to build an ecosystem around AI.
As of this developer conference, vivo's AI capabilities have covered more than 60 countries and regions around the world, serving more than 500 million mobile phone users.
The "Blue Heart Intelligence" strategy released by vivo this time emphasizes the deep integration of large model technology and mobile phone operating system, which is to further concretize abstract AI for users and provide more practical and concrete services for end users.
Specifically, the "Blue Heart Intelligence" based on the Blue Heart model can understand the user's personal situation and preferences, provide users with personalized and exclusive services, and at the same time, through the deep integration with the system, continue to build a more natural and intuitive interaction for users, making the experience more intelligent and warm. In this process, the user's privacy and security will also be protected in an all-round way.
For example, when a user drags and drops a piece of information on the mobile phone screen, the multi-modal large model can deeply interpret the user's intent, so as to provide the feedback that the user needs. With powerful speech representation understanding and generation capabilities, "Blue Heart V" can achieve natural conversations with users, or translate languages, simulate human voices, and even understand emotions in conversations, and it can even take over audio for autonomous conversations and complete tasks assigned by users (the event demonstrated the phone call process of making a restaurant reservation).
Under such a strategic direction, vivo released a new self-developed blue heart large model matrix, in which the 100-billion-level blue heart cloud large model has been fully upgraded, especially the intention understanding and distribution and task planning capabilities have been optimized, and at the same time, vivo officially released a new 3 billion parameter blue heart end-side large model 3B, which has achieved a balance between performance improvement, low power consumption and privacy and security.
vivo also brought a new self-developed blue heart speech model that can accurately understand natural semantics and simulate human voices, in addition to a blue heart image model that strengthens the fusion and generation ability of Chinese characteristics and oriental aesthetics, and a blue heart multimodal model that upgrades visual perception and understanding capabilities. Continuously complement the experiences that AI can build in different directions.
OriginOS 5 was unveiled, which incorporates the latest achievements in all aspects of vivo
Every year vivo updates OriginOS at the developer conference, and this year came to OriginOS 5. The system continues the design concept of "natural, comfortable and intuitive", and at the same time incorporates vivo's latest achievements in AI, battery life, system fluency, and network communication.
First of all, OriginOS 5 brings a spatialized perception experience based on the atomic design system, and the newly launched "panoramic weather" allows users to feel the changes of reality in the virtual world in a natural way, and the system has also upgraded features such as personalized lock screen and situational wallpaper. The entire system has more than 1,000 fluency optimizations, including light and shadow, interaction, form switching, scene transitions and other links.
Behind this is the unfair scheduling mechanism to 3.0, which intelligently allocates GPU resources by introducing GPU unfair scheduling for the first time, and the Ledger memory ledger mechanism pioneered by the Android camp realizes the accurate scheduling of system-level memory resources, and vivo's exclusive display enhancement technology "virtual graphics card" has also reached 2.0, which integrates the three core technologies of extremely fast response dynamic effect architecture, synthetic rendering accelerator, and graphics link collaboration engine, and has achieved comprehensive optimization of the whole link from touch to feedback interface.
In addition, on OriginOS 5, "Blue Heart V" and Jovi Voice are officially merged, bringing users a more natural voice interaction experience. In addition, there is a newly upgraded "Atomic Island" at the top of the interface, which can judge the next step according to the user's operation, so as to actively provide follow-up services for users.
OriginOS 5 also brings the industry's first kilometer-level networkless communication technology, which supports point-to-point voice intercom and text chat (based on Bluetooth) of up to 1.5 kilometers in an open environment, and the system also makes in-depth network performance tuning to ensure a smooth network experience in all scenarios. In addition, the system has also upgraded the Blue Ocean Endurance System, which introduces a new scene energy efficiency engine and brings technologies such as Heterogeneous Computing Space 2.0 to achieve all-weather battery life with efficient and accurate power management.
With the Blue Heart model as the bottom layer, Blue River OS 2 is completely built on AI
After the release of the self-developed Blue River operating system at the developer conference last year, vivo brought the Blue River operating system 2, which is equipped with the real-time operating system kernel "Blue River Kernel" written in Rust (Blue River operating system 2 has also become the industry's first full-stack operating system written in Rust), which is compatible with different embedded platforms, and has complete system scheduling, memory management, file system, network and device management capabilities.
The system is based on the blue heart large model as the underlying architecture, combined with the VCAP inference computing acceleration platform, which supports the flexible device-cloud deployment of the blue heart large model with different parameters, and the new service engine also provides support for understanding user operation habits and intentions, which becomes a completely AI-based system. vivo has also prepared a new Blue River UI framework for developers, based on adaptive UI layout, which can bring a consistent experience on different screen sizes in a single development.
More complete ecology, safer, and more humanistic care
This time vivo also shared its progress in multiple scenarios and directions. For a long time, vivo has been continuously developing five life scenarios: smart travel, smart home, smart office, sports and health, and audio-visual entertainment, and has achieved true open and intelligent connectivity by breaking down barriers between brands. While the ecosystem is open, vivo is also transferring AI capabilities to ecosystem devices across devices, allowing users to communicate efficiently with devices through natural language.
In terms of numbers, vivo smart cars have been connected to more than 170 car brands, covering more than 8,500 models. In terms of smart home connectivity, through deep participation in the construction of the Matter ecosystem, vivo has more than 1,200 SKUs in the alliance in the adaptive and connectable category. At the same time, vivo has also become the first manufacturer in China to be compatible with the Apple ecosystem, and has achieved cross-terminal collaboration with Mac through in-depth adaptation of Apple's M-series chips.
Vivo emphasized that it will adopt a technical strategy of "device-side priority and device-cloud collaboration" when providing AI services, and "the data that can be processed on the device side will never go to the cloud". In the face of complex AI task processing, the system will invoke the cloud-side large model capability on the premise of ensuring user privacy and data security, so as to achieve efficient and secure device-cloud collaboration and ensure that AI services are both intelligent and secure.
In addition, vivo empowers the "Qianjing Trusted Engine" with end-of-device AI capabilities through "Blue Heart Intelligence" to build a full-link fraud protection. Under the upgraded mobile phone loss prevention system, there is a new "Find Network" function - it supports offline search, and is the first in the Android camp to achieve shutdown positioning, it also supports remote physical-level secure data deletion and chip-level flash activation lock anti-theft.
In terms of humanistic care, vivo has upgraded the "Sign Language Learning" function in the "Sign Language Interpreter" launched last year, hoping to help more people learn sign language. Based on the blue heart voice model, "vivo listening" has added a dialect free speech function, which currently supports 6 dialects, and more languages are being adapted; Also based on the blessing of the large voice model, "vivo see" has added a real-time question and answer function, and it has also become the industry's first multi-modal large model visual auxiliary product.