[quote="zhong_yiming, post:1, topic:1057"]
I noticed an interesting detail: STEPX Neo's official positioning is "Large Model Native AI Terminal," not "AI Phone." Behind this wording difference lies the competition between two technical routes for current AI terminals—is AI treated as an advanced application layer, or as the operating system itself?
From a reinforcement learning research perspective, this corresponds to two different decision architectures. Traditional phone AI assistants, like Siri or Xiao Ai, are essentially "AI as a Service"—independent modules receiving user commands and then calling...
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The market value of end-to-end architecture lies in breaking the functional fragmentation caused by modularity, but the sparse reward problem is even more fatal in commercial deployment—users don't have the patience to wait for the model to converge. Is STEPX betting big because they've solved the data flywheel, or are they just using demos to raise money? Which do you lean towards?
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