Chinese AI firm launches 'world's first agentic smartphone'
Chinese startup StepFun has launched the StepX brand, featuring what it calls the world's first 'agentic smartphone' powered by a native large language model. The device is designed to proactively coordinate tasks and understand user intent rather than relying on traditional app-based navigation.
Why it matters
This represents a shift in the mobile industry from passive app-based interfaces to autonomous AI agents that can perform complex workflows.
Chinese artificial intelligence startup StepFun has unveiled what it describes as the world's first large language model-native AI device brand as it seeks to move beyond AI chatbots and into consumer hardware.
The company introduced the StepX brand alongside the Step Agentic-native Operating System, a new personal AI agent called Amoo, and the STEPX Neo, which it described as the world's first agentic smartphone built natively around a large language model.
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