Yinqi’s “Ten Questions and Answers”: How to build the first AI smartphone?

Zhidongxi Author | ZeR0 Editor | Mo Ying Zhidongzhi reported on July 14 that last night, Shanghai's large-model unicorn Step Star unveiled its first large-model native smartphone mobile phone STEPX Neo, and released the intelligent native operating system Step AOS, personal intelligent Amoo and large-model native AI terminal brand STEPX. During the post-meeting media exchange, Step Star Chairman Yin Qi and Step Terminal President Ni Jiayue answered ten key questions in more depth, including why they decided to end up making AI terminals, what are the differences between them and "bean bag phones", and their thoughts on the functions, forms and computing architecture of future smart phones. Putting all the answers together, Step Star is still a company that focuses on large models. It hopes to form a value closed loop through self-built Step AOS and intelligent agent terminals, allowing Agents to obtain execution data from the physical world. Leap regards hardware as a container that carries Agent services. In the first stage of smart phones, it does not simply pursue shipments. The business model does not rely on selling hardware or pre-installed advertising fees for long-tail applications to make money. It may eventually return to the general logic of token consumption. "Perhaps one day we will find that in the era of smartphones, it is China that truly defines the next generation of product experience and truly becomes the new paradigm for the next 10 to 20 years. This is the most important thing." Yinqi said that China has a very strong supply chain advantage. Combined with the advantages of AI, it should be able to make products that will surprise users around the world. ▲Yin Qi (left), chairman of Step Star, and Ni Jiayue (right), president of Step Terminal 1. Why do large model companies make their own terminals? The Leap team felt that users needed intelligent terminals, so they made it. China's large model companies need to find their own path to commercialization and industrialization. First, ToB's business of supplying models to OEMs will continue. However, in the existing mobile phone ecosystem, it is difficult to fully present the model, operating system and entire intelligent product in an existing mobile phone terminal, so it can only be tried first. Second, the highlight of this release is Step AOS, and the terminal serves it. If the step itself cannot take the lead now