The "Doubao AI Assistant" mobile phones are sold out.

On second-hand websites, some sellers have already put up the nubia M153 mobile phones for sale at prices ranging from 3,999 yuan to 4,599 yuan. Meanwhile, some sellers are selling F-codes at around 100 yuan.

The "Doubao AI Assistant" mobile phone has become extremely popular.

Reporters from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily found through inquiries that on the official website of ZTE Mall, the technical preview version of the nubia M153 Doubao mobile phone assistant priced at 3,499 yuan has been sold out.

The official website shows that users can fill in reservation information to apply for an F-code and purchase the phone as prompted after obtaining the F-code.

It is worth mentioning that the official website has given a special notice about this mobile phone, stating that it is only for industry professionals who want to experience the Doubao mobile phone assistant, and there is no guarantee of the functional perfection of a mature product. Ordinary consumers are advised to choose carefully.

Reporters from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily noticed that on second-hand websites, some sellers have already put up the nubia M153 mobile phones for sale at prices ranging from 3,999 yuan to 4,599 yuan. Meanwhile, some sellers are selling F-codes at around 100 yuan.

ZTE Terminal told reporters from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily that the nubia M153 mobile phone is a cooperative engineering prototype. Doubao takes the lead in the product definition and experience of the AI mobile phone assistant, while nubia under ZTE Corporation takes the lead in hardware engineering and technology R & D. It is only for industry professionals who want to experience the Doubao mobile phone, demonstrating Doubao's AI technology and capabilities, and is not a mass consumer product.

In addition to ZTE, ByteDance said that Doubao is in talks with multiple mobile phone manufacturers about assistant cooperation and has no plan to develop its own mobile phones.

Reporters from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily learned from multiple mobile phone manufacturers that there are currently no clear cooperation trends. The person in charge of a mobile phone AI product told reporters that they are currently monitoring the Doubao assistant but have no immediate plans for cooperation.

Actually, domestic mainstream mobile phone manufacturers have long been exploring mobile phone AI assistants and developing related applications. For example, Huawei's Xiaoyi, Xiaomi's Xiaoai, OPPO's Xiaobu, and Honor's YOYO, etc.

Manufacturers such as Honor and vivo are also exploring integrating AI into the operating system to achieve platform-level AI capabilities. At last year's press conference, Honor even demonstrated the function of ordering takeaways with just one sentence through the mobile phone AI assistant.

In terms of cooperation with Internet giants such as ByteDance and Alibaba, reporters from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily learned that mobile phone manufacturers prefer to independently develop end-side models, while choosing to cooperate with Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen, ByteDance Doubao large model, Baidu Wenxin large model, etc. for cloud-based large models.

The person in charge of the AI assistant of a certain mobile phone manufacturer told reporters from Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily that the Doubao mobile phone assistant is a good phenomenon-level practice, but it will take time to truly implement it.

Currently, for mobile phone AI assistants to fully access mobile applications, they need to overcome ecological challenges, including obtaining authorization from Internet application manufacturers such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Meituan.

Zhou Wei, the dean of vivo AI Global Research Institute, once said in an interview with Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily and other media that distribution in the intelligent agent era is a sensitive issue, and the security authorization standards between intelligent agents need to be improved.

"The integration of AI and mobile phones includes large models, the construction of system basic capabilities, and upper - layer applications. In terms of applications, it involves developers such as Internet manufacturers. The cross - application security authorization standards need to be jointly established by the entire industry. On the one hand, we should actively promote the establishment of industry standards, and on the other hand, AI technology also needs to become more mature."

Morgan Stanley said in its latest research report released on December 1st that although the Doubao demonstration version shows a rich functional ecosystem, its implementation faces significant challenges.

The report pointed out that such in - depth system - level integration requires modifying the operating system, which directly touches the core interests of mobile phone manufacturers.

Morgan Stanley believes that major mobile phone manufacturers and super - apps prefer to independently develop AI assistants. Therefore, Morgan Stanley maintains its optimistic view on application - layer stocks and reiterates its "overweight" ratings for Tencent, Alibaba, and Meitu.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily", author: Huang Xinyi. Republished by 36Kr with authorization.