China’s StepFun claims it has unveiled the world’s first AI smartphone
As Apple’s latest legal battle with OpenAI complicates the Silicon Valley race to reshape the consumer tech market, one Chinese start-up is taking a leap forward after unveiling what it claims to be the world’s first agentic smartphone. At a launch event in Shanghai on Monday, Tencent Holdings-backed StepFun introduced the StepX Neo. The device runs on Step AOS, an operating system designed specifically for artificial intelligence agents, and was launched under StepX – which the firm billed as..
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Published: 14 July 2026
Source: SCMP Tech (HK/CN)
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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