Doubao mobile assistant rejected by more than 170 apps; AGI Inc. secures cooperation with Qualcomm and Lenovo and advances the mobile operation layer.

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AGI Inc. is offering AI technology to phone manufacturers that can operate across apps, but Doubao has been rejected by more than 170 apps.

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Doubao phone assistant rejected by more than 170 apps, while its overseas counterpart has brought in Qualcomm and Lenovo as partners, and the Android co-founder has also come to show support

Dongcha Beating AI news flash: Silicon Valley startup AGI Inc is selling technology similar to the Doubao phone assistant to phone manufacturers.

In March this year, it successively announced a partnership with Qualcomm and demonstrated automatic food ordering, ride-hailing, and checkout in Lenovo's AI assistant Qira. In August, Android co-founder Rich Miner also joined the company as an advisor.

AGI was co-founded by Div Garg, a Stanford computer science PhD dropout. It has already launched an Android app; users only need to say "Get me an Uber" or "Send a message to a friend," and the AI can recognize the phone screen, automatically open the corresponding app, tap buttons, and fill in information. The entire process does not require third-party apps to open dedicated interfaces.

The company has also trained AGI-0, a model specialized in operating phones, and developed the on-device inference engine AGI-RUN, hoping to let the AI run locally on the phone as much as possible, reducing latency and privacy data uploads. AGI has also opened up a phone MCP interface, allowing agents such as Claude Code and Codex to directly operate Android phones.

AGI's business route is clear: it will not build phones itself, but instead package the model, inference engine, and cross-app operation capabilities and provide them to phone manufacturers, becoming the built-in AI operation layer of next-generation phone systems.

The domestic Doubao phone assistant is also following this technical route, but has already encountered resistance from third-party apps. As of November 4, including WeChat, Taobao, and Meituan, more than 170 apps have explicitly refused to let Doubao operate on behalf of users.

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Key points

AGI Inc announced a partnership with Qualcomm and demonstrated automated food ordering, ride-hailing, and checkout in Lenovo's AI assistant Qira.
Android co-founder Rich Miner joined AGI Inc in August as an advisor.
AGI, co-founded by Div Garg, has launched an Android app that can recognize the phone screen based on voice commands and operate the corresponding apps.
AGI trained the mobile phone operation model AGI-0, developed the edge inference engine AGI-RUN, and opened up the mobile MCP interface.
AGI's business route is to provide mobile phone manufacturers with models, inference engines, and cross-app operation capabilities.
As of November 4, more than 170 apps, including WeChat, Taobao, and Meituan, have explicitly refused to allow Doubao phone assistant to operate on behalf of users.

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AGI Inc. wants to let users complete phone operations such as ordering food, hailing a ride, and sending messages by speaking, without requiring each app to specifically open an interface. It also hopes to build this capability into the phone system as a built-in AI operation layer.

Why it matters to readers

This reflects the direction of mobile AI evolving from answering questions to directly operating apps, and also shows that app permissions and security restrictions may affect the coverage of such features.

For beginners, the key is to understand the "AI operation layer": AI is not just for chatting; it can also recognize the screen and click, fill in, and submit information on behalf of the user.

Risks and unknowns

The materials do not provide independent announcements from Qualcomm, Lenovo, or the relevant apps for cross-verification.
The scope and actual implementation of AGI's cooperation with Qualcomm and Lenovo remain unclear.
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Automated operations involve app permissions, privacy, and security issues, and the materials do not explain specific solutions.

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