ColorOS15: Ultra-Fast, More Ease, OPPO Reimagines the System, AI Powers the Future

ColorOS15: Ultra-Fast, More Ease, OPPO Reimagines the System, AI Powers the FutureOn October 17, 2024, OPPO officially unveiled ColorOS15 at its Developer Conference. With the core theme of "Ultra-Fast, More Ease," ColorOS15 has undergone significant improvements in fluidity, AI capabilities, design, and ease of use

ColorOS15: Ultra-Fast, More Ease, OPPO Reimagines the System, AI Powers the Future

On October 17, 2024, OPPO officially unveiled ColorOS15 at its Developer Conference. With the core theme of "Ultra-Fast, More Ease," ColorOS15 has undergone significant improvements in fluidity, AI capabilities, design, and ease of use. It will be first available on the new OPPO Find X8 and OnePlus 13, with plans for official updates for older models to begin in November.

At the media interview that afternoon, Chen Xi, Director of ColorOS Design, and Zhang Jun, Product Director of OPPO AI Center, provided in-depth insights into the highlights of ColorOS15 and its AI features.

AI: From AI-Powered System Applications to AI as the System

Zhang Jun, Product Director of OPPO AI center, stated that OPPO will bring more surprises in the AI realm, focusing on deep cultivation in multi-modal and personalized domains, with end-cloud collaboration as the key architecture. In the future, OPPO aims to place computationally intensive elements on the device side for enhanced security, real-time performance, and user experience.

Zhang Jun further elaborated on OPPO's three-stage understanding of AIOS:

1. AI for System: Integrating AI technology into system applications to improve application functionality and efficiency.

2. System for AI: Comprehensive system intelligence, where AI becomes a core part of the system, enhancing overall system efficiency and user experience.

3. AI as System: Deep integration of AI technology into the system, with system operation fully reliant on AI, achieving a more intelligent and user-friendly experience.

ColorOS15 is built upon this concept, introducing efficient system-level AI, including the new "Super Xiaobu Assistant," supporting various interaction methods like one-click screen questioning, one-click questioning through images, one-click search, image question answering, and document question answering. Additionally, the system-level AI's perception and scheduling capabilities enable ColorOS15 to establish an ecosystem handshake between its own applications and third-party apps, encompassing areas such as English tutoring, job interview practice, travel guides, and food reviews.

Reimagining the System, AI-Powered Seamless Experience

Addressing the optimization of fluidity for intensive application usage, Chen Xi, Director of ColorOS Design, pointed out that system-level fluidity has reached a relatively high standard, and the next focus is on application-level fluidity. He believes that the system requires further optimization in long-tail scenarios and daily fine-grained experience, entering a stage of "micro-competition," such as ensuring consistency and fluidity in various long-tail scenarios.

To transition from system fluidity to application-level fluidity, ColorOS15 has undergone comprehensive optimization from the underlying layers to the user interface, introducing the Fluid Dual Engine Aurora Engine and Tidal Engine.

• Aurora Engine introduces the industry's first parallel rendering framework, making animation effects smoother and more seamless.

• Tidal Engine achieves a dual improvement in fluidity and battery life through chip-level performance optimization.

Regarding the availability of Tidal Engine technology for other manufacturers, Chen Xi stated that Tidal Engine is currently compatible with both platforms, regardless of Qualcomm or MediaTek. He believes that this technology will become an industry standard in the future, as competition has reached a stage where speed and quality leadership are crucial.

Intuitive, Integrated, Exclusive, Secure: OPPO's AI Philosophy

OPPO has proposed four core elements for AI: "Intuitive, Integrated, Exclusive, and Secure," with particular emphasis on "Intuitive" and "Integrated."

• Intuitive: The system becomes increasingly human-like, possessing human-like perception abilities, making interactions natural and anthropomorphic.

• Integrated: Integrating information and interactions across different modalities, avoiding simple switching between individual modalities.

SenseNow Smart Framework: Achieving Multimodal Intuitive Interaction Experience

Through the SenseNow Smart Framework, OPPO has realized the functionality of "Seeing and Speaking," breaking the limitations of traditional AI interaction and achieving a multi-modal interactive experience. Users can immediately ask questions or give instructions while browsing content, with AI responding in real time.

The SenseNow Smart Framework incorporates independently developed voice multi-level wake-up and personalized recognition technologies, achieving a voice wake-up and recognition accuracy exceeding 97%. Multimodal understanding technology equips AI with visual capabilities, supporting over 1,000 subject recognitions and enabling mixed text and image search. Generative speech synthesis frameworks enable AI to mimic human tone and rhythm, supporting over 20 personalized voices. The SenseNow Smart Framework also integrates information sources of various types, understands complex intentions, and completes cross-application operations.

AI Reimagines the System: Where's the Differentiation and Barrier to Entry?

Although AI-reimagined systems have become a focal point for smartphone manufacturers, where lies the differentiation and barrier to entry? Zhang Jun explained that the "Seeing and Speaking" function achieved through OPPO's SenseNow framework relies on a completely different technology path.

Traditional AI interaction is typically singular, while the one-click screen question functionality enables simultaneous multimodal interaction through "Seeing and Speaking." This means that users can immediately ask questions or give instructions while browsing content, with AI responding in real time, eliminating the need for users to switch between different modalities.

Achieving this requires complex branch decision-making and information fusion understanding technology. The system needs to simultaneously process various input sources, such as visual information and voice instructions, and then coordinate their processing. OPPO's goal is to make AI assistants function like human assistants, capable of "seeing, speaking, and doing," seamlessly. This seamless experience involves a considerable technical barrier to entry.

Conclusion: ColorOS15 Leads the AI Smartphone Era

With the core theme of "Ultra-Fast, More Ease," ColorOS15 delivers a more intelligent, convenient, and user-friendly experience through comprehensive improvements in system fluidity, AI capabilities, design, and ease of use.

The release of ColorOS15 marks OPPO's official entry into the AI smartphone era, showcasing its strong capabilities and forward-looking strategic development in the AI domain. In the future, OPPO will continue to cultivate AI technology, providing users with increasingly unique experiences.