Recently, vivo has made major adjustments to its organizational structure and announced the establishment of a new AI field in the original OS product field. This new department will include Department 1 of Artificial Intelligence and Department 2 of Artificial Intelligence, marking vivo's continuous investment and strategic layout in artificial intelligence technology. The change was also accompanied by senior personnel adjustments. Zhang Fei, the former general manager of the Internet platform operation field, was appointed as the general manager of the new AI field and served as the head of the Artificial Intelligence Department, directly reporting to the company's vice president and the head of the OS product field.
It is worth noting that vivo's AI department is gradually shifting the training center of its big model to the end side. According to internal information, although the company has invested huge resources in AI big models, due to heavy early management intervention, the technological progress is not ideal. Based on this, vivo decided not to assess commercialization for the time being and has suspended further investment in funds.
At the technical level, vivo's cloud-based large language model with 70 billion parameters is still being fine-tuned and optimized, but its pre-training has been suspended. This move shows that vivo has made careful strategic adjustments to the long-term development of AI technology, rather than just pursuing short-term business interests.
In addition, vivo officially launched its full-blooded version of DeepSeek-R1 on February 25, improving the intelligence level of the AI assistant "Blue Heart Little V". After upgrading to version 5.2.1.22, users can experience the in-depth thinking and network search capabilities brought by the new model, as well as the convenient services of the "Operation Assistant" intelligent body. This series of changes and technological upgrades show vivo's continuous exploration and innovation in the field of artificial intelligence.
Through this restructuring and technical adjustment, vivo hopes to improve the user experience of the product through AI empowerment and promote the company's future development in the fiercely competitive smartphone market.