ByteDance-powered AI telephone sparks on-line rush as customers eager to strive agentic assistant

The first smartphone working on ByteDance’s synthetic intelligence agentic telephone assistant offered out on the primary day, as customers jumped on the probability to strive the AI-powered gadget that might change the best way folks use cellphones.

The ZTE Nubia M153, an “engineering prototype” solely accessible for order on-line, was keenly wanted because of ByteDance’s embedded operating-system-level Doubao Mobile Assistant, which is ready to perform duties comparable to reserving eating places or modifying pictures through voice instructions.

Neither ByteDance nor ZTE disclosed the variety of Nubia M153s accessible for buy.

The joint effort from TikTok proprietor ByteDance and ZTE, a second-tier Chinese smartphone maker, is the newest instance of China’s benefits in combining AI capabilities with standard client devices to deliver the facility of AI to atypical customers.

The limited-availability prototype telephone, priced at 3,499 yuan (US$494), had offered out by Monday night. Customer service was asking consumers to submit requests for the variety of telephones they needed to buy, as manufacturing could be tailor-made primarily based on demand.

The shortage instantly inflated costs on the second-hand market. On Xianyu, a web-based flea market owned by Alibaba Group Holding, the telephone was being resold for as much as 4,999 yuan, a 43 per cent premium to the unique worth. Alibaba owns the Post.