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An unlikely Chinese company claims they have the first "AI Agentic Phone"

A Chinese company you may have never heard of has just announced that it's making a smartphone - or at least sourcing one from an ODM. But wait, this is no regular smartphone; it's the world's first AI agentic phone. And guess what, it's being hyped before OpenAI got a chance to hype up its own rumored smartphone.

The company in question is called StepFun - it was founded in 2023 by former Microsoft employees in Shanghai, and the phone they are teasing today is called the StepX Neo. StepFun is no strange

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