On October 23, 2026, Honor showcased its Magic9 series AI agent smartphones and full-scenario AI terminal ecosystem at the Consumer Electronics Innovation Conference (CEIC). Honor's chief AI scientist Huang Fei also presented the company's terminal AI technology framework for the next decade.
China has approved four more AI agent smartphones for network access, including three Honor Magic 9 series models and the STEPX Neo, the first LLM-native AI agent smartphone developed by StepFun subsidiary STEPX, following the Nubia NaviX Ultra’s approval in late August.
At the Alibaba Cloud Apsara Conference main forum on Sept 22, Honor product line president Fang Fei outlined the company's next-phase view of AI terminals: MagicOS will evolve into Agentic OS, a partner-style multimodal agent operating system, and Honor will co-create five vertical-domain models and solutions with Alibaba based on MagicOS and Qwen Intelligence, including the industry's first system-level Agent Harness architecture deployed in MagicOS 11. The new YOYO achieves 91.8% overall task accuracy and 90% end-to-end task closure; the Honor Magic9 series is scheduled for official release on Sept 28.
At the 2026 Apsara Conference, Alibaba announced that the Honor Magic9 series, launching on September 28, will be among the first official models to feature its AI phone solution Qwen Intelligence, with the Honor Robot Phone also supporting it. The two companies jointly developed a vertical-domain model and solution based on Qwen Intelligence and Honor MagicOS, achieving a comprehensive task accuracy of 91.8%, a GUI operation speed of 3.6 seconds, and an end-to-end service completion rate exceeding 90%.
Honor unveiled MagicOS 11 at its global developer conference on September 15, 2026, claiming it is the industry's first mobile operating system with a commercially deployed system-level agent harness. Its YOYO assistant supports long-horizon tasks of over 100 steps and 700+ tool calls, with 91.8% intent understanding accuracy, and integrates Home Assistant, covering over 1,000 proactive service scenarios.
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