Huawei unveils mobile AI assistant

Chinese electronics giant Huawei unveiled its first mobile personal assistant with artificial intelligence in Berlin, in hopes it will rival the dominance of Samsung's Bixby and Apple's Siri.

The mobile assistant, called Kirin 970, will systematically respond to three questions—“the most important combination,” Richard Yu, chief executive of Huawei's Consumer Business Group said: Where is the user? Who are they and what are they doing?

But unlike its competitors' virtual assistants, which collect and gather information in the internet cloud, the prowess of Huawei's AI assistant lies in processing data on the smartphone, rather than in the cloud.

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