How to reconstruct the operating system for Agent? We saw the answer in WAIC

Intelligent things Author | Chen Junda Editor | Mo Ying At the 2026 WAIC, intelligent agents have become one of the topics that attract the most attention. From basic large model manufacturers to office software and terminal companies, almost all exhibitors are describing the future of the intelligent agent era. However, what is more worthy of attention than the new products themselves is the question they jointly try to answer: When the big model is smart enough, how should the intelligent body exist in the mobile phone? After actually visiting the entire exhibition hall, we discovered an interesting phenomenon. Cloud agents have begun to take on more and more complex tasks, but most of the so-called agents in consumer terminals are still in the "AI assistant" stage. They can chat, search, and summarize content, but it is difficult for them to truly complete a complex cross-application and cross-service task for users. During the WAIC period, the large-scale Unicorn Step Star unveiled their latest thinking on terminals in the era of smartphones: the large-scale native smartphone mobile phone STEPX Neo, and the world's first smartphone-native operating system Step AOS and the personal smartphone Step Amoo. At the step booth, a live demo showed how STEPX Neo works. When the user gives the command "Help me send the file to the company, Frank is rushing me", the system automatically identifies the current location, calls the contact information, matches the company address, and completes the order for errand services. During the entire process, the user did not open any App or input instructions step by step. The agent completed task planning and execution independently. The capabilities demonstrated by this demo are actually the shortcomings that current smart phones urgently need to make up for. 1. AI mobile phones enter a new stage: Why does "OS+AI" begin to encounter bottlenecks? Smart phones, or AI phones in a broader sense, are not a new concept. In the past year or two, almost all mainstream mobile phone manufacturers have integrated large models into the operating system, and capabilities such as AI assistants, AI search, and AI office have been rapidly popularized. But a common problem gradually emerged: AI is getting smarter and smarter, but mobile phones are not becoming more and more "capable". Many users have