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- Doubao Phone Assistant SAEP notice ends with 155 apps refusing AI control
On 14 October the 30-day notice period for the Doubao Phone Assistant's Screen Automation Operation Declaration Protocol (SAEP) ended with 155 apps opting out of AI automation — 66 from Tencent, 23 from Alibaba, 14 from Kuaishou and 11 from Meituan, including WeChat, QQ, Taobao, Alipay, Tmall, Meituan and Honor of Kings, as well as AI apps like DeepSeek, Kimi and Kling. Users can still install those apps, but cannot have the assistant send WeChat messages, shop on Taobao or order food for them. A first prototype, the M153 (3,499 yuan, December 2025), was blocked for screen reading and simulated taps; the second-generation NaviX Ultra prefers MCP and A2A protocols with taps as a fallback and gives apps 30 days to refuse. Analysts say platforms are protecting entry points, user time, recommendation power and data ownership; rival StepFun's STEPX Neo Preview, which only calls APIs apps open voluntarily, has nearly 100 partners including Alipay, Meituan and Didi.
钛媒体 · 🔥 7 - Chinese LLM makers push into AI hardware to grab entry points and revenue
On Oct 13, StepFun chairman Yin Qi unveiled the STEPX Neo agent phone in Shanghai, while Alibaba's Qwen released two AI glasses and an AI headset in Hangzhou the same day, with both events showcasing AI capabilities. Earlier, ByteDance and ZTE's Nubia NaviX Ultra — better known as the "Doubao phone" — went on sale Sept 16 with over 360,000 reservations on JD.com, and Tencent's WorkBuddy open platform launched Sept 2 in Shenzhen with nine co-branded hardware devices spanning glasses, earbuds, recording cards and speakers. A former executive at a leading Chinese LLM company is quoted saying the push is mainly about capturing entry points, since users show little loyalty to models, and that selling devices is another monetization path; listed Zhipu spent 2.131 billion yuan on R&D in the first half, about 2.2x revenue, while MiniMax spent US$297 million, roughly 2.5x revenue, with both loss-making. The report notes no LLM company has disclosed accurate AI hardware sales figures, and hands-on tests found weak real-time translation accuracy and an AI phone that failed to complete a takeout order in several minutes.
36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 6 - OPPO taps Manus to bring multi-step agents to ColorOS 17
On October 13, OPPO announced a partnership with agent platform Manus to integrate its multi-step task execution into AI Mind Pilot's new Agent mode, planned to debut first on Find X10 series phones running ColorOS 17. According to OPPO's global website, the mode will initially support both Manus and ChatGPT with a free usage allowance, and existing subscribers can connect their own accounts to keep using their current plans. The article also cites Counterpoint and IDC third-quarter 2026 data: OPPO group shipments (including OnePlus and realme) fell more than 20% year over year with share down to 9%, while its China shipments fell 17.6% and its China share stood at about 15.5%. The same day, StepFun launched the STEPX Neo agent phone preview edition at 3,999 yuan, bundling the Step AOS system, Step models and 12 months of token credits.
钛媒体 · 🔥 4 - 155 apps reject Doubao Phone Assistant's SAEP protocol, leaving its agent vision stalled
TMTPost's Guangzhui Intelligence reports that Doubao Phone Assistant published the results of its Screen Automation Execution Protocol (SAEP) disclosure period on Oct 14, listing 155 apps that formally refused to let its AI act on their behalf — including WeChat, QQ, Taobao, Alipay, Meituan, Kuaishou, DeepSeek, Kimi, Pinduoduo, Xiaohongshu, WPS and several bank and carrier apps, with 66 Tencent-linked and 23 Alibaba-linked entries. ByteDance framed SAEP — with its three layers of app-declared boundaries, centralized policy decisions and system-level enforcement — as a way to set rules for GUI agents, but the report attributes the refusals to lost traffic gatekeeping and privacy worries, noting WeChat and Alipay had already triggered risk controls against the first Doubao phone. The piece contrasts this with StepFun's STEPX Neo, launched Oct 13, which takes an MCP+A2A approach and whose Amoo agent has partnerships with nearly 100 companies including Alipay, Tencent, Ctrip and Meituan, and with Meta's Muse, which Amazon cut off from shopping 13 days after launch.
钛媒体 · 🔥 3 - StepFun launches STEPX Neo, an 'agent-native' phone with Step AOS 1.0
On the evening of Oct 13, StepFun unveiled STEPX Neo, its first large-model-native agent phone, running what it calls the world's first agent-native operating system, Step AOS 1.0, plus the Amoo agent; the handset is ODM-manufactured with a Snapdragon 8-series chip, a transparent two-tone body and a dot-matrix rear display, and no price or ship date was given. StepFun says Step AOS is compatible with Android, Linux and RTOS and adds an agent runtime layer above the traditional system to schedule device and cloud compute, share data across apps and use a 'dual-domain, three-step' memory structure — simple tasks run locally, complex ones in the cloud, with undo and rollback — though the company admits completion is about 70%. Chairman Yin Qi said current on-device chips cannot support heavy agent demand and noted Step 5 Preview has 27B active parameters, so Amoo will still send many tasks to the cloud; meanwhile Doubao Phone Assistant's published refusal list shows 151 apps, including WeChat, Taobao, Meituan and Alipay, rejecting GUI automation.
钛媒体 · 🔥 3 - StepFun's STEPX Neo model-native agent phone launches at 3,999 yuan
StepFun's device arm has released STEPX Neo, described as its first model-native agent phone, built around the personal agent Amoo and the Step AOS system with a combined model-software-hardware pitch; the early edition is priced at 3,999 yuan in carbon black and silicon silver. In an Ifanr hands-on, Amoo handled multi-step cross-app tasks such as booking a flight with a conditional switch to rail and a budget cap, answered questions about circled on-screen content, delivered a scheduled news briefing, and let the reviewer build an App, Skill or Agent via conversation in Step Studio and push it to the phone for testing and publishing. The company says it has partnerships with roughly 100 firms and products including Alipay, Tencent, Ctrip, DiDi, CapCut, Amap and Meituan; buyers get 12 months of a 10-billion-token monthly allowance, and the first 10,000 qualifying users receive a "star ticket" for a zero-cost swap to any new STEPX device within five years (terms per the product page). The piece also flags unresolved heat, battery-life and ecosystem gaps, and the experience comes from an outlet review rather than independent testing.
爱范儿 · 🔥 0 - StepFun's STEPX Neo agent-native phone to launch October 13
StepFun Terminal has announced that STEPX Neo, its first "large-model-native agent phone," will be unveiled on October 13 at 7 p.m. The device runs an agent-native operating system called Step AOS and ships with a new personal agent, Amoo; in company demonstrations it syncs documents and generates a slide deck from a single spoken instruction, calls a courier to deliver a paper document, or reads a concert poster and then handles ticket purchase, travel arrangements and even drafts a leave request. It has a transparent two-tone body, a large matrix rear camera module with dual lenses and a secondary interaction display, and StepFun says it passed the L3 tier of China's first national standard series for AI terminal intelligence grading.
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