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L3 Is Just the Starting Line for China's AI-Agent Phones

Eleven mobile devices passed China's first batch of national AI-terminal intelligence grading tests in July, including nine smartphones from Huawei, Motorola, Honor, vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi, and Stepfun. Vendors call L3 the highest level, but the report says the real bottleneck for L4 is not model capability.

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L3 Is Just the Starting Line for China's AI-Agent Phones: Eleven mobile devices passed China's first batch of national AI-terminal intelligence grading tests in July, including nine smartphones from Huawei, Motorola, Honor, vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi, and Stepfun. Vendors call L3 the highest level, but the report says the real bottleneck for L4 is not model capability.