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Barcelona – Honor on Sunday promised $ 10 billion in artificial intelligence in the next five years and announced a deepening partnership with Google if the Chinese smartphone producer seeks to strengthen its share on the market abroad.
According to Honor Congress Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​designed to rearrange a smartphone player in “AI Device Ecosystem”.
The Chinese company is the beginning of smartphone world after leaving Huawei in 2020, when the technological giant was affected by US sanctions. Since then honor looked to expand outside China and push into Part of the higher class market where Apple and Samsung Play.
The company spoke on the walk Release of some innovative devicesIncluding sophisticated phones, but it still remains a small player worldwide. Smartphone market share outside China was 2.3% in 2024 against 1.7% in 2023, according to IDC.
The Press Socialist Honor said CNBC that the money would go to transfer the II into equipment, as well as AI’s next generation agents, which are often described as a more advanced virtual assistant.
Another part of the investment will go to the creation of the “AI AI” platform for a wide range of devices.
“This is not limited to our own devices, but also AI devices from different partners, so different types of AI devices can talk to each other, and consumers can have more choice and seamless impressions,” Honor’s press secretary said.
A small part of the investment will also be used to “prepare for AGI (artificial general intelligence).”
AGA is usually referred to the II, which is smarter than people.
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On Sunday, honor demonstrated proof of the concept of “AI”. One example was the user asking the agent to book a restaurant with certain requirements, such as the preferred kitchen type and the user distance. The agent went ahead and made an order. Honor said it works with Google and Chip Designer Qualcomm over the development of its AI agent but did not give a date for release.
Meanwhile, Honor also uses a technology behind Google Gemini, the AI ​​US company, for AI features on its latest devices.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, Honor announced that it would make seven years of using Android operating system and security updates for its magical series of flagship smartphones – becoming only one of the very few suppliers. Google’s own pixel devices and Samsung flagship smartphones are the only other devices that offer similar support.
Android is an operating system created by Google. While the seven -year support is not related to Google, it emphasizes the pride of the operating system.
Although there are many Android players, not all of them have such a close connection with Google as Samsung, the world’s largest Android user, and Xiaomi, the second largest. Honor now joins this list.
“Honor’s deep partnership with Google is very significant,” said Ben Wood, CCS chief analyst, said CNBC. “Today it seemed that Google was holding Chinese smartphones on length when it came to the most advanced aspects of Gemini AI, but it seems to be honored alongside Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel Product, which is a coup.”
