Motorola announces ways to catch up in the world of AI for smartphones
Motorola has multiplied its announcements in the world of telephony this year: a large catalog of smartphones, including a whopping five Edge 50s, two Razr 50 (folding) and more affordable Moto G, contributes to its strategy of conquering the European telephony market, in which the brand hopes to occupy third place within three years. It is initiating visible efforts in the field of software sustainability, its Edge 50 Neolike the ThinkPhone 25 of which it is the general public version, thus comes with five years of software updates. However, there is still a long way to go in the world of artificial intelligence, where its beginnings are timid to say the least.
If Motorola offers a suite of features called Moto AI, it is essentially focused on the processing of photographs captured using its smartphones, and it remains behind the options offered by the competition. The Lenovo brand nevertheless intends to overcome its weaknesses, and is presenting the progress of its work in AI at the Tech World conference, currently underway in the United States.
New functions in Moto AI
The brand mentions the use of its Large Action Models (LAM), allowing the user to “chat” with their smartphone using natural language, as they can for example do with Google's Gemini. Motorola announces the possibility of triggering actions within third-party applications, such as meal ordering apps or Uber, with the AI then responsible for informing the user of the status of their order. These LAMs would also be able to learn the user's habits and offer them tools or actions (alarm clocks, musical playlists, etc.) adapted to their habits.
In addition to this conversational aspect, Motorola-style AI is dedicated to integrating functions as well. Catch me upfor the classification and summary of notifications received, Pay attentionfor transcription and summarizing conversations or meetings, and finally Remember thisfor recording details related to information displayed on the screen to remember. For this last function, Motorola cites the example of the use of language models to record context details when capturing photos, in order to facilitate their subsequent search or organization.
These “smart” elements are announced, but not yet deployed. Motorola assures that its “New Moto AI experiences are now in beta testing”and that invitations to try them will be offered to its users “all year round”. It remains to be seen which smartphone models will be eligible.
