en.Wedoany.com Reported - Huang Fei, Honor's Chief AI Scientist and Chief AI Officer, publicly proposed on May 17 that AI is evolving from a tool into an operating system. The kernel of future mobile operating systems will, for the first time, be rebuilt around five core capabilities: intent understanding, agent scheduling, multi-agent collaboration, multimodal perception, and semantic interaction. A source close to Honor confirmed on the same day that Honor's self-developed AI-native universal agent operating system, AgenticOS, which embodies this technical framework, is expected to be released this year alongside MagicOS 11. Once implemented, the phone system will fundamentally transform from a desktop managing files and applications into an intelligent platform orchestrating collaboration between humans and AI.

Huang Fei's judgment on this paradigm shift stems from observations of terminal behavior patterns. The core action of a phone is shifting from "people invoking apps" to "people expressing intent, and the system completing it autonomously," forcing the underlying operating system to redefine its capability stack. Among the five new cores, Agent scheduling is listed as the top priority. It will no longer be an add-on feature attached to the system but will manage the lifecycle and task distribution of multiple AI agents, just as current operating systems manage processes. Multimodal perception will sink from the upper application layer to become a system input layer, on par with touch and voice, enabling the system to continuously understand the environment and anticipate needs. In Huang Fei's view, multiple manufacturers will follow the AgenticOS direction this year, and Honor's role is not merely technical adaptation but defining the evolution path itself.

The engineering groundwork from MagicOS 9.0 to AgenticOS has been progressively completed over the past two years. In October 2025, Honor took the lead in the industry by launching MagicOS 9.0, featuring a built-in self-developed on-device large model and an open cross-application agent development framework, achieving a system-level "autonomous driving" operational experience on consumer terminals for the first time. At the end of that year, the vision-language-action large model MagicGUI was officially open-sourced, closing the capability loop on the device side from understanding the screen to automated operation. During MWC in March this year, the first robot phone, the Robot Phone, debuted equipped with an AI agent system, with embodied intelligence and the phone sharing the same AI underlying architecture. These technological accumulations have brought a key fact to the forefront: when the inference capability of on-device large models crosses a certain threshold, the operating system is no longer just infrastructure for managing applications but must directly host the operation of AI agents.

Unlike Apple's gradual integration path and Google's fragmented approach of progressively injecting Gemini into Android, Honor has chosen a completely new path of redefining the operating system kernel around Agents. Apple embeds Apple Intelligence into the existing iOS framework, striving to maintain continuity in the interaction paradigm; Google is constrained by ecosystem fragmentation, resulting in an uneven rollout pace of AI capabilities across Android devices. Honor's strategy is more agile in iteration speed, but kernel reconstruction also means directly confronting ecosystem compatibility challenges. Huang Fei's assessment is that the industry's follow-up will validate the inevitability of this direction, and as a pioneer, Honor needs to simultaneously address the dual challenges of technology migration and developer ecosystem development.

From an industry trend perspective, the AI-driven reconstruction of terminal operating systems is a unanimous consensus. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon pointed out during this year's MWC that AI is propelling smartphones into a new innovation cycle, with on-device AI capabilities becoming the core driving force for the next generation of mobile experiences. Multiple phone manufacturers have released on-device large models or agent frameworks, but these remain at the application layer overlay and have not yet touched the kernel reconstruction level. The launch of AgenticOS will be a landmark event in the critical transformation of operating systems from "managing applications" to "managing agent collaboration."

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