The news: China’s Honor Devices committed $10 billion over five years to fund its pivot from smartphones to AI-centric devices and applications.
Honor will create a “device-centric AI ecosystem” to compete with Apple, Google, and Samsung through partnerships with telecom giants Orange and Telefonica, it announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
Key trend: China’s Big Tech companies are ramping up their AI ambitions via breakthrough models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Baidu—and now through AI devices.