181: Chapter 181 Lu Li: Let the mobile phone truly think about life for humans

Lu Li flipped to the page featuring the rear camera.

The image on the big screen switched simultaneously.

He spoke in a casual tone.

"We've also made some improvements to the imaging."

Then, a line of specifications appeared in the bottom right corner of the screen.

20x.

20x optical zoom.

There was a brief silence in the audience.

The kind of silence that says, "I'm sure I didn't misread that, but I need to double-check."

The next second, it couldn't be contained.

"20x?!"

"20x optical zoom on a phone?!"

"Are you kidding me?!"

"This is a phone, not a telescope!"

"You're showing me this in 2018?!"

"That's a game-ender..."

Lu Li didn't explain much; he started the demonstration immediately.

He opened the camera and switched directly to video mode.

The lens was aimed at the last row of the venue.

The big screen behind him simultaneously displayed the phone's real-time screencast.

The last row of the venue.

A man wearing glasses was looking down at his phone, completely unaware that he was already on the big screen.

The reflection on his lenses, the fine strands of hair against his temples, and even the loose silicone tip on his left earbud cable were all crystal clear.

The venue began to stir.

Lu Li's finger continued to slide across the screen.

The focal length lengthened again.

The lens passed through the venue's giant glass curtain wall, pointing straight at the street outside.

A taxi with its roof light on was stopped at the intersection, waiting for the red light.

The license plate number was incomparably clear.

Even the scratches on the "Vacant" sign behind the windshield were visible in every detail.

The media section in the front row was in total chaos.

Several professional cameras were almost knocked over.

Lu Li returned to the home screen and opened the photo album.

"Taking pictures of the moon isn't very interesting."

"I tried it out on Uranus last night."

A video shot of the night sky began to play.

In the footage, the night sky was deep and vast.

As the focal length zoomed in, a tiny celestial body emitting a faint blue light hovered steadily in the center of the screen.

It wasn't just a blurry blob of light.

The clear outline of the planet could be seen.

The entire venue erupted.

Applause, whistles, and screams mixed together, almost blowing the roof off the venue.

The barrage of comments in the livestream was so thick it covered the entire screen.

"Uranus???"

"Bro, you call this a phone?!"

"Competitors, don't sleep tonight; get up and take your beating."

"Google was still fighting for the future narrative yesterday, but today, Guanghui Technology just blew the hardware ceiling off with a phone."

"I thought the Full-screen display was outrageous enough, but there's something even more outrageous!"

"The smartphone race is over!"

Overseas. In the Google headquarters conference room.

Several executives looked at the sample photo of Uranus on the screen, their expressions extremely grim.

The head of technology knitted his brows into a knot.

The PR director quickly took notes on a notebook.

He knew very well that for the next twenty-four hours, this phone would dominate the global digital tech trend charts.

But they hadn't conceded yet.

"It doesn't matter." The PR director forced a steady tone.

"The core battlefield isn't here."

"The phone business was never our focus anyway."

Across the conference table, the head of AI nodded.

"Keep watching."

"As long as he can't come up with a solution for the next generation of mass-market portable personal device access points, our ecosystem narrative won't collapse."

What they wanted to capture was the next generation of portable personal terminal devices.

The Virtual Helmet was too bulky to be carried around, and wearing it would cause a disconnect in consciousness, making it impossible to operate one's body.

Their XR, Extended Reality, was the true prototype for the next generation of portable personal device access points.

At the domestic launch event. Lu Li, however, seemed completely unbothered by the waves of exclamations from the audience.

He simply raised his hand and switched to the next PPT slide.

On the big screen, a few words appeared: [Doubao AI · Full Version].

The noise in the audience quickly subsided.

Many people looked puzzled.

Doubao? That voice assistant Guanghui Technology released earlier?

It was indeed a bit smarter than competitors on the market, but its ceiling was just that.

Every major company had its own voice AI; what kind of tricks could this do?

The tone of the barrage comments changed as well.

"Is this the grand finale?"

"After such an intense start, we end with an upgraded voice assistant?"

"Feels a bit anticlimactic."

Lu Li stood quietly in the center of the stage. He looked at the audience, his voice steady.

"In the past, people had to search for functions."

"Starting today, functions will find people."

After saying this, he placed the phone flat on the demonstration table beside him. He took his hands off the device.

"Help me order a meal for two and have it delivered to the office."

"Also, call a car."

"And send a text to her, telling her I'll be there in twenty minutes."

As soon as he finished speaking, the phone screen on the demonstration table lit up automatically.

The food delivery app was awakened. The system automatically filtered high-rated merchants nearby. It matched a meal set for two. It compared prices. It selected coupons. It submitted the order. It completed the payment.

The entire process was fluid and seamless, so fast it was dazzling.

The discussions in the venue came to an abrupt halt.

Immediately after, the ride-hailing app popped up automatically. The system read the current location and the coordinates of Guanghui Technology's headquarters. It avoided congested routes based on real-time traffic. It placed the order for a car.

Finally, the text message interface appeared. The recipient was automatically matched to Su Qingxue. A line of text quickly popped up in the input box: "I'll be there in about twenty minutes; the road is a bit congested, so you go ahead and get busy." It clicked send.

The whole process took less than ten seconds. Lu Li's hands hadn't touched the phone once.

There was deathly silence in the venue. This wasn't a cold reception. This was the cognitive framework of thousands of people being completely shattered at the same time.

In the backstage lounge, Wang Peng had his mouth wide open, staring fixedly at the monitor.

"This is the real Doubao AI..."

Lu Yaoguang clenched her hands tightly. She knew all too well how terrifying the technical logic behind this was.

In the past, users needed to learn the operational rules of every single app. Now, the system had taken over the rules directly. This wasn't just some voice assistant. This was a system-level AI agent!

In the venue, someone finally reacted. One person stood up and clapped hard. Then ten, one hundred, one thousand followed. Thunderous applause erupted, ten times more intense than when the Full-screen display was demonstrated just moments ago.

Everyone had goosebumps.

This wasn't simple voice interaction. The phone understood the meaning of "meal for two." It understood the address of the "company." It understood that calling a car required factoring in real-time traffic. It even understood who the "her" for the text message was, and what tone to use.

The underlying interaction logic of smartphones had been completely overturned. It was no longer humans operating phones; it was phones thinking for humans.

The barrage comments went completely crazy.

"Holy crap! Has this phone become sentient?!"

"Google: Our AI can generate a game in one sentence. Guanghui: Our AI can live your life in one sentence."

"This is the true next-generation access point!"

"Buy, buy, buy! I'll sell everything I own to buy it!"

"Did you notice? The entire operation was completed in the background, without affecting you watching videos in the foreground at all!!"

Across the ocean. In the Google senior conference room. The head of AI stood up abruptly, knocking the chair behind him to the floor. The XR lead's face turned pale.

No one mentioned "marketing impact" anymore. Because this was no longer a battle at the marketing level. This was a battle of paths.

"He didn't respond to our glasses." A vice president said with a trembling voice.

"He stuffed the access point back into the phone."

The conference room was deathly silent. The "next-generation mass-market access point" narrative they had painstakingly built last night seemed incomparably ridiculous at this moment.

Lu Li didn't even bother competing with them for the future of wearable devices. He simply used the device everyone already had in their hands to achieve a true intelligent agent.

If the phone in your pocket could complete all your decisions and operations for you, who would still want to wear those bulky glasses?

The head of AI pressed his hands against the table, his knuckles turning white from the force.

"If the phone becomes a true agent access point..." He didn't continue.

Everyone understood what was left unsaid. Google's ecosystem defense line had already been torn open with a fatal crack.

On stage. Lu Li listened to the deafening cheers, his expression still lazy. He knew this was far from enough. The real trump card for today had yet to be revealed.