In Xiaomi’s future there is the dream of an all-in-house smartphone: proprietary chipset, operating system and AI, for a device that could disrupt the industry’s balance. Reality requires us to keep our feet on the ground even though Lei Jun’s company is making giant strides, in the XRING SoC series.
Among the brand’s future projects is also a mysterious AI Phone: we discussed it at the outset, but since then there have been no updates. However in the latest hours something has moved, thanks to a well-known Chinese insider who has unveiled a futuristic scenario featuring a smartphone entirely managed by artificial intelligence with control even of the cameras.
Xiaomi wants to revolutionize the market with a phone guided entirely by AI
The rumors come from Digital Chat Station, the leaker we know very well. Based on what has emerged, Xiaomi’s team would be working on a forthcoming concept phone, equipped with features very different from a traditional device.
The insider cites a design characterized by a unibody chassis with no visible joints, a style that seems very different from current phones. However the technical part appears to be flawless, representing the apex of a normal flagship: there would be a 6.5″ diagonal screen with ultra-thin bezels and LIPO technology, a 200 MP camera with a sensor of 1/1.12″ and a battery of 8,000 mAh.
So far nothing unusual, and indeed the real novelties would lie in the software side. The main feature of the alleged Xiaomi AI Phone would be the presence of artificial intelligence: it would not be optional, with use at the user’s discretion, but an AI agent integrated at the system level and operating constantly in the background.
The AI would be able to freely manage the front camera to monitor the surrounding environment and respond based on the situation, without going through user control. The integration with the selfie camera would be total, like a kind of eye for the AI; furthermore, it would also be able to act on the main camera to improve shots through scene recognition (and the right optimizations).
The system would operate autonomously, understanding the surrounding environment and improving photos in real time — thus actively interpreting what it sees.
Clearly this is a rumor, although the reports of a Xiaomi concept phone with native AI are not new. Based on what has emerged previously, the AI Phone should see the light by the end of the year: it would absolutely not be a commercial product, but a prototype to show to the public, a culmination of technologies that could also find space on commercial models.
