Honor AIAgent: A Pioneer in Intelligent Agents in an Open Ecosystem, Leading the New Era of On-Device AI

Honor AIAgent: A Pioneer in Intelligent Agents in an Open Ecosystem, Leading the New Era of On-Device AIHonor has become a benchmark for the industry in its on-device AI deployment, setting a path for others to follow. In recent years, Honor has meticulously built its presence in this field, achieving remarkable results

Honor AIAgent: A Pioneer in Intelligent Agents in an Open Ecosystem, Leading the New Era of On-Device AI

Honor has become a benchmark for the industry in its on-device AI deployment, setting a path for others to follow. In recent years, Honor has meticulously built its presence in this field, achieving remarkable results. In March this year, Honor led the industry by being the first to introduce a four-layer AI architecture strategy, even prompting major players like Apple to follow suit. At IFA 2024 in Berlin, Honor once again unveiled the latest advancements in on-device AI innovation, revealing its groundbreaking AI Agent innovations and launching the industry's first cross-application open ecological intelligent agent globally. The company announced that its next-generation flagship product, the Magic7 series, will be the first to feature Honor AIAgent.

As the industry's first successfully deployed intelligent agent within an open ecosystem, Honor AIAgent embodies the culmination of Honor's years of deep expertise in on-device AI. Through the Honor AIAgent built on an open ecosystem, Honor aims to deeply integrate AI applications and services that offer value to users, creating a "always-on personal assistant" for them. Based on an understanding of user habits and current usage scenarios, Honor AIAgent can accurately interpret user needs and respond promptly, executing and accessing various resources and third-party services on the phone, delivering services in a more secure and personalized manner to meet user demands.

The foundation for this capability lies in the four core strengths of Honor AIAgent:

• Natural Language Understanding and Computer Vision: Can comprehend user voice commands and image information, accurately recognizing user intent.

• User Behavioral Habit Learning and Scene Environment Awareness: Learns user habits and scenarios to provide personalized services and recommendations.

• Intent Recognition and Decision-Making Ability: Analyzes user needs and makes the best action decisions, such as one-click disabling automatic renewals, ordering drinks with one click, one-click travel planning and booking, etc.

• In-app and Cross-app Operations: Can operate across different applications, such as activating the intelligent agent to achieve one-click review, one-click cancellation of App subscription renewals, and other functions.

Leveraging these core strengths, Honor AIAgent can activate the intelligent agent with a single voice command, delivering a range of groundbreaking experiences. For instance, with "one-click to disable automatic renewal," Honor AIAgent first understands the displayed content, explains its meaning, and then translates it into action. By activating the intelligent agent, it enables one-click review and one-click cancellation of App subscription renewals.

In fact, tech giants like Apple are also actively investing in AIAgent development. In June, Apple unveiled AppleIntelligence, a user-centric AI strategy aligned with Honor's previously proposed AI four-layer architecture. On September 10, at its fall product launch event, Apple announced that AppleIntelligence would be available in October but would initially only support English, with other languages like Chinese becoming available next year. This means the Honor Magic7 series will be the first phone for Chinese consumers to experience AIAgent.

It's important to note that Honor AIAgent's strategy differs from that of Apple and other manufacturers. In an interview following the IFA event, Honor CEO Zhao Ming shared his perspective on the closed and open approaches: "What Honor aims to do is to create an open platform that can support a vast number of AI services and applications in the future." Unlike Apple's approach to building AIAgent within a closed "walled garden" ecosystem, Honor is dedicated to creating an AIAgent that can perform cross-third-party application operations within an open ecosystem. Honor believes that open ecology, user-centricity, and privacy security are the keystones of the mobile AI era. In the future, AI will be about various services, fundamentally no different from today's apps, and the market will see a multitude of diverse AI agents emerge. Therefore, for phone brands, supporting a wealth of diverse AI applications on an intelligent platform is a key direction for Honor's future development. Zhao Ming emphasizes, "Compared to Apple's closed system, an open ecosystem is more conducive to integrating with a vast number of internet AI services in China's internet and AI service landscape."

Honor AIAgent's "open" technology approach is not without foundation; it stems from Honor's deep technical expertise in AI accumulated over the years and a profound understanding of "AI reconstructing the operating system." Based on years of exploration in AI, Honor has built a comprehensive on-device AI technology system and possesses a clear and traceable strategic development trajectory.

As early as 2016, Honor had strategically positioned itself in the AI smartphone market. Its first-generation Magic series of smartphones, equipped with the MagicLive intelligent engine, opened the door to intelligent phones. In 2018, the second generation of Honor Magic was released, introducing YOYO, a self-evolving and self-learning intelligent life form integrating AI capabilities such as computer vision, natural language understanding, deep learning, decision systems, and recommendation systems.

By the end of 2022, Honor unveiled MagicOS 7.0, a personalized all-scenario operating system powered by AI. It was the first in the industry to advocate for leveraging platform-level AI to build the foundation of the OS. In June 2023, Honor once again led the industry by being the first to propose integrating large AI models onto the device side. Early in 2024, Honor released its self-developed MagicOS 8.0, bringing a human-computer interaction experience that can accurately recognize user intent. In March, Honor pioneered an AI-powered all-scenario strategy and a four-layer AI architecture, establishing the industry's first comprehensive and systematic AI technical framework.

Today, Honor AIAgent once again achieves a synergistic innovation effect in on-device AI and value-added user experience, propelling the smartphone industry into a more turbulent era of intelligent agents. Honor's leadership in on-device AI technology is a testament to its long-term innovation philosophy.

According to data released by Honor, over the past three years, Honor's annual R&D investment has consistently exceeded 10% of its total revenue, reaching 11.5% in 2023. In the AI research and development field, current AI R&D expenditures have reached 10 billion yuan, with 2,100 AI patent achievements and 600 types of AI intent recognition. Honor not only focuses on its own R&D and innovation but also actively collaborates with prestigious institutions like Renmin University and Fudan University, jointly establishing AI joint laboratories dedicated to exploring cutting-edge technologies and cultivating AI talent. Additionally, Honor consistently upholds the spirit of open collaboration, working closely with leading global AI partners, including Qualcomm, Microsoft, Google, Intel, and NVIDIA, to collectively explore the pinnacle of AI experiences. Honor states that its AI collaborations are open to all partners without excluding any third parties.

Currently, we are entering a new era shaped by AI, where AI technology is redefining production methods, lifestyles, and our thinking. As AI technology continues to advance, Apple and other phone manufacturers are accelerating their deployment of AIAgent, seizing a strategic advantage in the AI window. Honor, as a global pioneer in domestic intelligent agents, has already taken a leading position in this era.