Many smartphone companies have started working on their own AI products to power their devices. After a fantastic run of devices like the Magic V3 and Magic7, HONOR is looking to boost its AI prowess with a new partnership. However, this is a pretty bold move. HONOR will partner with DeepSeek, the most controversial AI company.
The list of reasons why DeepSeek isn’t controversial is shorter than the list of why it is. The company burst on the scene two weeks ago brandishing a powerful capable of giving OpenAI’s and Google’s models a run for their money. However, everything from how it trained its AI, its false claims about how much it costs to train its models, how much data it extracts from users, where it stores this data, and how it protects users’ data has labeled DeepSeek as one of the most problematic AI companies on the market.
HONOR will partner with DeepSeek
So, even though this company has pretty much broken every rule for training an AI model, DeepSeek is still gaining traction. People are still signing up for the service en masse and companies are still entering partnerships with it.
Among the companies drawing up contracts with DeepSeek is HONOR. What was once a subsidiary of Huawei, HONOR has struck out on its own and brought us some pretty awesome devices. Its Magic V3 is the thinnest foldable phone on the market today and an overall fantastic device.
However, it’s not just about the hardware, as HONOR is looking to boost its AI presence. The company has its YOYO AI assistant on its phones, and it’s been gaining some serious traction. HONOR boasted that the platform has 130 million active users. Well, in a new announcement, the company stated that YOYO is getting a boost by implementing DeepSeek’s R1 model.
With this, YOYO will be much better when it comes to natural language understanding. You will be able to ask the assistant more complex questions and get more comprehensive answers. Not only that, but YOYO will be able to understand your question more deeply so as to know why you asked it.
The people who know about DeepSeek probably won’t be too happy about this, as the company is still shrouded in a fog of controversy. In any case, the genie is already out of the bottle.
