Honor to develop a 'super intelligent' AI smartphone with the help of Google and Qualcomm

Date:
Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:48:03 +0000

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Honor has announced its new Alpha Plan strategy, which includes a pledge to develop a 'super intelligent' smartphone.

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Honor has overhauled its smartphone strategy to become an AI device ecosystem company, and is working on a new type of an intelligent smartphone that will feature purpose-built, human-centric AI designed to maximize human potential.

The companys new CEO, James Li, announced the move dubbed the Honor Alpha Plan at MWC 2025, calling on the smartphone industry to co-create an open, value-sharing AI ecosystem that maximizes human potential, ultimately benefiting all mankind. Talk about ambition.

This Alpha plan consists of three steps, each catering to a different era of AI: namely the Agentic AI era, the Physical AI era, and the AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) era. The first, Honor says, concerns the development of a super intelligent smartphone, which the company will create in
collaboration with various partners including Qualcomm and Google.

Honor teased various new software tools as part of its presentation
including AI Upscale and an cross-OS file-sharing technology (yes, that means compatibility between iOS and Android devices) that will feature on its upcoming devices. Some, like AI Upscale, will come to the recently released Honor Magic 7 Pro , too. Image 1 of 3 Step 1 of the Honor Alpha Plan (Image credit: Future) Image 2 of 3 Step 2 of the Honor Alpha Plan (Image credit: Future) Image 3 of 3 Step 3 of the Honor Alpha Plan (Image credit: Future)

For the so-called Physical AI era, Honor hopes the industry can work together to create an AI ecosystem and get the very best out of this potentially paradigm-shifting technology. I call on the industry to be truly open so that we can fully embrace this exciting AI future. Lets do it together, Li said on stage at MWC. Sure, thats more than a little vague (does the industry mean rival smartphone manufacturers?) but Honor is supposedly investing more than $10 billion into this cross-collaboration idea, so the company is certainly committed to the cause.

Finally, the AGI era will welcome the co-existence between carbon-based life and silicon-based intelligence, according to Li. AGI refers to Artificial General Intelligence, an as-yet-unrealized type of AI that matches human cognitive abilities. AGI follows ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence), which refers to AI designed to perform specific tasks, and precedes ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence), which refers to AI thats, ahem, smarter than humans (think Skynet and HAL 9000 those famously non-threatening systems).

Jokes aside, Honors cross-collaboration ambitions are well-founded. The last few years has seen smartphone manufacturers and software companies large and small develop genuinely experience-enhancing AI tools (consider Samsungs Live Translate tool and Honors own Deepfake Detection feature ), but theyre scattered across the industry and between devices.

Pigs might fly before Apple and Samsung talk to one another, but Honors call to action will no doubt attract the attention of smaller companies with the expertise to accelerate the AI revolution. You might also like Honors Magic Portal 2.0 brings game-changing updates to one of the best Android software features Honor Magic 7 Pro launches with Deepfake Detection and a 200MP Super Zoom camera Honor Magic 7 RSR launches with more RAM than the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra combined (yes, really)



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