Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup, is experimenting with tools designed to complete tasks based on smartphone users’ voice commands, paving the way for a future where our digital lives are automated. It’s proven.
The Beijing-based company says its AI agent app AutoGLM can understand relatively complex voice commands, such as “repeat the most recently ordered cereal from your shopping history” or “order a latte at the nearest cafe.” .
Zhipu AI, which runs a series of AI models and related chatbots such as ChatGLM, says the tool plans the steps involved in each task, “reads” the information displayed on the screen, and takes the necessary actions on your smartphone. It can be executed.
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AutoGLM is the latest example of how Chinese startups are developing products that provide AI capabilities to consumers via smartphones in a market with few strong foreign competitors.
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Apple this week rolled out its on-device AI system, Apple Intelligence, in U.S. English in most regions, but the service is not available in mainland China, where the company is still facing regulatory hurdles to launch the service. We are working with local authorities to clear the issue.
China is also excluded from the list of countries and regions where ChatGPT maker OpenAI and rival Anthropic provide access to their generated AI products. Last week, Anthropic debuted Zhipu AI’s AutoGLM-like feature called “Computer Usage,” which automates certain computer operations, such as organizing spreadsheets or finding specific information from thousands of rows of data. Ta.
AutoGLM is a product marketed to Chinese users and is compatible with popular local apps.
For example, when a Post reporter asked an AI agent to order a latte on Monday, the app automatically opened food delivery platform Meituan to search for cafes, rank them based on distance, and find the closest cafe. and selected the appropriate drink. For security reasons, the app continued to ask users for manual confirmation before making payments.
AutoGLM currently operates Tencent Holdings’ multipurpose app WeChat, Alibaba Group Holding’s Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba-backed navigation apps Amap and Meituan, crowdsourcing review platform Dianping, and online travel. It can be operated in collaboration with agencies such as Trip.com. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.
