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China's smartphone maker Honor pledged $10 billion in AI investments over the next five years and announced on Sunday a deepening partnership with Google.
The investment plan, revealed at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, is designed to reposition the firm from a smartphone player into an "AI device ecosystem company".
Honor meanwhile displayed their new deepfake detection technology on its Magic 7 Pro smartphone, a world's first.
The new Hornor also features a new AI agent, is expected to be rolled out globally later this year.
Honor is somewhat of an upstart in the smartphone world, after spinning off from Huawei in 2020 when the Chinese tech giant was hit with US sanctions. Since then, Honor has looked to expand outside of China and push into the higher-end part of the market where Apple and Samsung play.[...]"