en.Wedoany.com Reported - On July 13, China's Qianli Technology announced the integration of the Step AOS intelligent agent native operating system, the Step Amoo personal intelligent agent, and the Step Edge on-device model family, all developed by China's Step Star, into the automotive sector. The two parties will combine large models with automotive intelligent system capabilities to advance the synergy between models, operating systems, and in-vehicle hardware, enabling intelligent agents to perform environmental perception, task understanding, system invocation, and operational execution within vehicles.
Step Edge is an on-device model family developed for terminal hardware such as vehicles and smartphones, supporting capabilities including text and visual understanding, audio comprehension, speech recognition, graphical user interface operation, and image generation and editing. The model can independently handle lightweight tasks on the vehicle side, and when task complexity increases, it invokes cloud-based models for collaborative operation, thereby reducing local response latency and mitigating privacy risks associated with uploading certain data to the cloud.
As the operating environment for intelligent agents, Step AOS transforms the vehicle's existing hardware capabilities, system data, computing resources, and application services into resources that intelligent agents can understand and invoke. Its core functions cover memory, decision-making and execution, as well as security mechanisms. After a user requests travel, navigation, information queries, or in-vehicle services, the system can decompose the task and coordinate scheduling across different applications and vehicle functions, reducing the need for users to manually open applications and operate functions step by step.
Step Amoo serves as the user-facing interaction portal for intelligent agents. Once integrated into the vehicle terminal, this intelligent agent will interpret task intent based on user habits, vehicle status, and the surrounding environment, and invoke vehicle-side functions through Step AOS. Compared to intelligent assistants that operate only within a single application, Amoo possesses operating system-level invocation capabilities, enabling cross-application task execution and continuous service across multiple terminals through end-cloud collaboration.
This deployment extends the collaboration between China's Qianli Technology and China's Step Star in the field of automotive large models. The two parties had previously announced a joint effort to build a native intelligent driving base model, incorporating real driving perception, vehicle control, and three-dimensional spatial data during the model pre-training phase, enabling the model to understand road environments, time sequences, and vehicle motion states. The further introduction of on-device models, an intelligent agent operating system, and a personal intelligent agent indicates that the scope of their cooperation is expanding from intelligent driving models to the entire vehicle intelligent terminal.
Currently, the two parties have not yet disclosed the in-vehicle chips that Step Edge will support, the first models to be equipped, the mass production timeline, or the specific vehicle functions that Step AOS can invoke. Related products will need to complete in-vehicle hardware adaptation, system interface integration, model deployment, and real-vehicle validation before entering the large-scale installation phase.
