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Chinese Tech Firms Pitch AI Agents as the Future of Smartphones
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Chinese smartphone makers including StepFun, Nubia, and Honor are launching AI agent phones at Shanghai's WAIC that autonomously coordinate tasks across services—finding EV chargers, ordering food, booking trips—without requiring step-by-step user commands.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Agents and Consumer Apps.
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If you're building AI agent infrastructure—task planning, service orchestration, permission layers, audit trails—Chinese phone makers have just signed up as customers. The phones need backends that can safely chain tasks across payments, transport, food, and travel without exposing user data or creating runaway actions.
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