OPPO has announced a collaboration with AI agent platform Manus to integrate next-generation agentic AI capabilities into its AI Mind Pilot, a move that signals a significant shift in how smartphones handle complex tasks. The partnership aims to advance OPPO's vision for Personalized Proactive Intelligence, where AI not only answers questions but proactively helps users get things done. This development matters because it represents a step change from reactive voice assistants to proactive agents that can understand user intent, take actions, and deliver finished results, potentially transforming daily productivity and creative workflows.
According to Kai Tang, President of Software Engineering at OPPO, "Agentic AI marks an important shift from answering questions to helping users get things done." He added that the collaboration with Manus will bring more proactive and capable experiences to AI Mind Pilot, enabling AI to better understand users' intentions, take actions, and complete tasks. Tao Zhang, Co-Founder & CPO of Manus, noted that smartphones are central to people's daily lives, making them a natural platform for personal AI agents. By combining Manus' agentic capabilities with OPPO's system-level integration, the companies aim to make advanced AI agents more accessible and help users complete multi-step tasks through simple, natural interactions. This collaboration, reported by Media OutReach Newswire, underscores the growing competition among tech giants to embed AI deeper into mobile operating systems.
The integration will debut through AI Mind Pilot's new Agent Mode on the upcoming OPPO Find X10 Series with ColorOS 17. Unlike simple question-and-answer interactions, AI Mind Pilot can understand a user's end goal, break it down into multiple steps, identify relevant information, select appropriate tools, and deliver a finished result, including by working directly with files and photos stored on the device. For instance, a user planning a trip could ask AI Mind Pilot to organize their travel plans; it can find flight tickets, hotel bookings, restaurant reservations, and attraction tickets scattered across different apps, then combine them with relevant online information to create a personalized day-by-day itinerary without manual gathering. Similarly, users can ask AI Mind Pilot to find and organize photos from a trip, locate specific images, or bring together existing files and online information to create a presentation, proposal, or portfolio, all with a single prompt. These capabilities could significantly reduce the time and effort spent on routine digital chores, making smartphones more like proactive assistants.
As AI moves from providing information to working with personal context and completing tasks, privacy, security, and user control become increasingly important. AI Mind Pilot is designed with these priorities at its core. ColorOS 17 uses on-device models to understand and organize relevant information locally. For local tasks such as finding, organizing, or renaming files and photos, the original content remains on the device and is not shared with Manus. When a task requires external processing, AI Mind Pilot will ask for the user's explicit confirmation before relevant content is uploaded or shared. Users remain in control of what information is accessed, which actions are taken, and whether external processing is allowed. Through on-device processing and transparent authorization, OPPO and Manus aim to make agentic AI more capable while maintaining a clear focus on users' choice and control. This approach addresses growing consumer concerns about data privacy and could set a benchmark for how AI agents handle sensitive information.
The Manus-powered capabilities in AI Mind Pilot will debut on the OPPO Find X10 Series with ColorOS 17. Further details on availability, supported markets, and user benefits will be announced at launch. The collaboration highlights the intensifying race to deliver agentic AI on mobile devices, with OPPO and Manus positioning themselves at the forefront of a shift that could redefine user expectations for smartphone intelligence.
