Bland AI, an artificial intelligence company focused on phone customer service, recently announced that it has completed a $16 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $22 million. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, PayPal founder Max Levchin, Eleven Labs CTO Piotr Dąbkowski, and Twilio founder Jeff Lawson.

The renowned intelligent imaging brand Insta360 (also known as "Yingshi") will launch the new generation of Flow series AI smartphone stabilizers, Flow Pro, at 21:00 on July 9th. This product will be the world's first smartphone stabilizer to connect with Apple's DockKit protocol, marking a significant breakthrough in the smartphone photography field. The biggest highlight of Flow Pro lies in its deep integration with Apple's DockKit protocol. Users can directly access the iPhone's native camera

Deutsche Telekom showcased a fully AI-based smart concept phone at MWC 2024, planning to eliminate smartphone apps in the next 5-10 years. The AI Phone is developed in collaboration with Qualcomm and Brain.AI, powered by cloud-based artificial intelligence, discarding traditional app interfaces. The main goal of the AI Phone is to free users from the constraints of specific applications. Competition in the AI sector is fierce, and the significance of artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly prominent.

There is a misunderstanding about the concept of AI phones. The true AI phone is equipped with a personalized operating system. Honor CEO Zhao Ming aims to fully develop the second local market in Europe.

The era of AI phones has arrived. In 2024, AI phones become the key phrase. Smartphone manufacturers are competing to develop AI phones. Consumers lack awareness of AI phones. AI technology is changing the future development of phones.

Samsung has chosen a legitimate alternative by partnering with Baidu AI Cloud to address sales issues in the Chinese market. In this collaboration, Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan foundational model will be deeply integrated into Galaxy AI, enhancing the features of the S24 series. Chinese OEMs are expected to focus on generative AI, innovative foldable forms, and advanced imaging technology to boost sales and expand their user base. IDC, a global market intelligence company, predicts that by the end of 2024, over 70% of devices in the Chinese market will have AI capabilities.

On January 18, 2024, Samsung held the Galaxy AI global product launch conference, announcing the arrival of the Galaxy S24 series, developed in collaboration with Google's Gemini nano large model to welcome the 'Galaxy AI era'. The newly released Galaxy S24 series AI phones support various AI features such as language understanding, image recognition, etc., including new functionalities like Circle to Search, AI real-time translation, and AI note assistant. The phone also features Google's IMA.

The Samsung Galaxy S24 series will surpass the Google Pixel phones in AI capabilities. The S24 series will feature AI conversation functions similar to ChatGPT, as well as advanced AI capabilities like text-to-image conversion. Samsung's voice assistant Bixby will also become smarter.