Honor launched its beforehand teased Alpha Plan on Sunday, sharing a three-step imaginative and prescient to create an open synthetic intelligence (AI) ecosystem. Forward of the Cellular World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona, the Chinese language model made a number of AI-focused bulletins, together with AI brokers, a brand new AI-powered imaging expertise for gadgets, and a brand new AI PC. The corporate additionally talked about its plans to construct an ecosystem to introduce new innovation in AI, comparable to bodily AI (robotics) and synthetic normal intelligence (AGI).
Honor Reveals Its AI-Targeted Alpha Plan
In a newsroom submit, the buyer tech model detailed its Alpha Plan. Put merely, the Alpha Plan is Honor’s company technique to change into a frontrunner within the AI machine ecosystem house. For this, the corporate is attempting to work with the trade companions comparable to Qualcomm and Google Cloud. At its occasion, the Chinese language model additionally invited representatives from CKH Group, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone.
“It’s clear that the AI revolution will reshape the paradigm of the machine trade – fully remodeling our productiveness, our society, and even our tradition greater than ever earlier than. I’m calling on all of us to unite collectively to handle the challenges – in addition to the various alternatives – of AI expertise. I additionally name on the trade to be really open in order that we are able to absolutely embrace this thrilling AI future,” stated James Li, CEO of Honor.
The corporate defined that its Alpha Plan contains three steps. Step one consists of the event of an “clever cellphone” that helps AI brokers. Honor stated it can co-create agentic AI capabilities with companions. The second step consists of the bodily AI period, which additionally refers to robotics. The Chinese language model highlighted that the trade might want to work collectively to create an open AI ecosystem. The ultimate step consists of the AGI period, the place it claimed that the expertise will develop the boundaries of human potential.
Whereas a lot of the company imaginative and prescient was targeted on future developments and Honor’s positioning within the ongoing AI wave, the corporate additionally demonstrated a few new AI applied sciences.
In collaboration with Google Cloud and Qualcomm, Honor showcased a graphical person interface (GUI)-based cellular AI agent that may reserve a desk at a restaurant through the use of third-party companies. Within the demonstration, the agent was additionally ready so as to add the reservation info in Honor’s calendar app. The corporate stated it may possibly additionally alert customers to go away at a specific time, contemplating present site visitors situations. The agentic experiences shall be added to its gadgets in worldwide markets within the close to future.
The corporate additionally launched AiMage, its new model for in-house imaging expertise. AiMage is powered by AI Kernel which provides assist for hybrid device-cloud AI fashions. Honor will add a 1.3 billion parameter AI mannequin on-device that may enhance picture readability by 50 p.c. The server-based AI mannequin comes with 12.4 billion parameters and focuses on enhancing the standard of telephoto photos.
Honor’s AiMage can even energy a brand new software dubbed AI Upscale that may restore previous portraits. The characteristic will first be rolled out to the Honor Magic 7 Collection 1, beginning March. It additionally plans to launch an AI Deepfake detection software within the worldwide markets through its smartphones.
Forward of the MWC 2025, Honor additionally launched the MagicBook Professional 14, a brand new AI PC to pick international markets.
Highlighting its dedication to the ecosystem-based method, the corporate introduced that the Honor Magic collection gadgets will obtain seven years of Android OS and safety updates. It will first be carried out within the European Union market. Moreover, the corporate stated it can obtain operational carbon neutrality by 2024, and plans to succeed in carbon neutrality throughout its whole provide chain and merchandise by 2050.
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