Rongzhong Finance reported on February 18 that according to Meizu's official Weibo news, Meizu decided to stop all in AI and will stop traditional smartphone new projects.
Meizu said that it will reconstruct Flyme OS based on the AI strategic layout, build new AI terminal devices, and will fully open it to global large model teams, actively embrace OpenAI and other top international large model teams, and build a new AI ecosystem.
Meizu Technology Weibo.
Shen Ziyu, chairman and CEO of Xingji Meizu Group, said in his speech that in 2023, Xingji Meizu Group will complete the transformation from a mobile phone company to an ecological group.
Shen Ziyu said that Meizu has been developing positively, but the mobile phone industry has indeed undergone some changes, becoming more and more like the computer industry, mainstream products have been able to be smooth without cards, enough to take pictures, and full of functions, consumers only change their phones in an average of 51 months, and everyone finds that it is enough. "The innovation of the mobile phone industry is more like an arms race with stacked parameters, increasing memory, increasing CMOS, increasing battery and fast charging, etc., and there are more and more ways to get communication in the industry. ”
Shen Ziyu said, "I think that in an environment of infinite involution, it is a waste of team talent to use valuable wisdom resources and creativity to fight against the scale effect and copy-paste of traditional smartphones, so I made a very difficult decision that Meizu will stop investing in new projects of traditional smartphones and use limited resources and time to do something greater." AI is the future, and Meizu in the next era will be all in AI. ”
According to Shen Ziyu, "We will reconstruct the interaction logic of the software, and in my opinion, people in the AI era should interact in the most intuitive way." We will also reconstruct the AI-based ecological layout, Meizu's new AI hardware equipment will be fully open to global large model teams, and actively embrace OpenAI and other international top large model teams to build together with you, which belongs to the AI ecosystem of the next era. ”
Shen Ziyu revealed, "Later this year, we will update the AI-based mobile phone operating system for old users, and we will also launch a new AI terminal product." In the next few years, Meizu will continue to iterate its existing product lines, build a complete AI ecosystem, and bring an all-weather AI product and a Pro-level product that explores cutting-edge technologies. ”
At the same time, Shen Ziyu said that the full shift to AI will not affect Flyme OS, Unbounded Zhixing, MyVu, Pandaer and other businesses, Meizu will continue to increase the construction of online, offline, overseas and other channels, and will continue to invest in providing users with a more complete after-sales network and services, and all products of existing users will enjoy normal software and hardware maintenance.
In July 2022, Xingji Times announced that it held Meizu Technology 7909% controlling stake and acquired sole control of Meizu Technology. It is understood that after the strategic investment, Meizu Technology will continue to operate as an independent brand, and Huang Zhang, the founder of Meizu Technology, will be the strategic advisor of Meizu Technology's products, and the senior management team of Meizu Technology will remain stable. In terms of the new management structure of Xingji Times and Meizu, Shen Ziyu, vice chairman of Xingji Times, also serves as the chairman of Meizu Technology, and Huang Zhipan of Meizu Technology continues to serve as CEO. In March 2023, ECARX announced that Shen Ziyu was appointed as the chairman and CEO of Meizu Group.