Recently, vivo made significant adjustments to its organizational structure, announcing the establishment of a new AI division within its existing OS product area. This new department will include AI Department 1 and AI Department 2, signifying vivo's continued investment and strategic layout in artificial intelligence technology. This change also involved a high-level personnel adjustment, with Zhang Fei, former general manager of the internet platform operations area, appointed as the general manager of the new AI division and concurrently head of AI Department 1, reporting directly to the company's vice president and head of the OS product area, Zhou Wei.
It's noteworthy that vivo's AI department is gradually shifting its large model training focus to the terminal side. According to internal sources, although the company has invested heavily in AI large models, progress has been less than ideal due to significant initial management intervention. Therefore, vivo has decided to temporarily suspend commercialization assessments and has paused further funding.
Technically, vivo's 70 billion-parameter large language model in the cloud is still undergoing fine-tuning and optimization, but its pre-training has been paused. This indicates that vivo has made a well-considered strategic adjustment to the long-term development of AI technology, rather than simply pursuing short-term commercial gains.
Furthermore, vivo officially launched its full-fledged DeepSeek-R1 on February 25th, enhancing the intelligence level of its AI assistant, "Blue Heart Little V." Users can experience the in-depth thinking and online search capabilities of the new model, as well as the convenient services of the "Homework Assistant" intelligent agent, after upgrading to version 5.2.1.22. These changes and technological upgrades demonstrate vivo's continuous exploration and innovation in the field of artificial intelligence.
Through this restructuring and technological adjustment, vivo hopes to enhance user experience through AI empowerment in the fiercely competitive smartphone market, driving the company's future development.