Pioneering a new era of AI-driven mobile experiences, HONOR and Alibaba have established a strategic cooperation agreement aimed at integrating cloud and device technologies. The agreement, signed in Hangzhou, China, by CEOs James Li and Eddie Wu, focuses on a robust collaboration in AI ecosystems, models, and intelligent services. The partnership aims to leverage its strengths in AI agents and large-scale AI models to enhance core service scenarios, including travel navigation, tourism, lifestyle, mobile office, e-commerce, and entertainment. This cooperation will promote technical exchanges and resource sharing, targeting the development of innovative features and interaction paradigms for mobile devices.
For AI models and capabilities, the collaboration will center on joint development based on the Qwen open-source model. This includes vertical application models for on-device AI, AI agents, and multimodal understanding and generation. The ultimate goal is to co-create a globally leading “cloud-device integrated” intelligent device experience, seamlessly merging the power of the Qwen large model with HONOR’s cutting-edge hardware, operating systems, and diverse scenarios. This joint effort will accelerate the evolution of large model technology, focusing on scenario-specific and on-device improvements to deliver more intelligent, personalized, secure, and fluid AI services and experiences to HONOR MagicOS users.
Furthermore, the two powerhouses will further strengthen their collaboration on MaaS (Model-as-a-Service) AI capabilities. This involves continuously optimizing performance and integrating capabilities across text, multimodal, image, video, and voice scenarios. We will jointly explore training, fine-tuning, and inference processes for both on-device and cloud AI models, whether based on the Qwen open-source model or developed collaboratively. The ambition is to forge advanced on-device models that achieve State-of-the-Art (SOTA) capabilities.
Looking ahead, this deep cooperation will continue to expand. Leveraging Alibaba’s extensive commercial service ecosystem and utilizing the MCP (Multi-Cloud Platform) protocol, a series of vertical intelligent agents, including Ele.me (food delivery), Damai (ticketing), and Taopiaopiao (movie ticketing), will be progressively integrated. This will extend the Agent ecosystem to a broader array of vertical scenarios, including food delivery, entertainment, office collaboration, and e-commerce, providing users with even more convenient and efficient life services.
This initiative will embed AI technology more deeply into daily life. HONOR’s upcoming HONOR Magic8 Series, poised to redefine the most powerful self-evolving AI-native smartphone, will also bring users a wealth of AI usage scenarios and services jointly developed by HONOR and Alibaba in China.
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