Honor’s Yoyo Assistant Will Now Support Deepsek-R1 AI MODEL

HonorThe Chinese Smartphone Brand, Announced The Integration of its yoyo virtual assistant with the Deepsek-R1 Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Model on Saturday. The company claimed to have become the first android manufacturer to offer the ai model in its devices. With this, the company’s Native Assistant will be able to tap into the capability of the reasoning model to complete complex tasks. Notable, in the Previous Weeks, Perplexity and Microsoft’s Azure Ai Foundry Have also added the Deepsek-R1 Model as an on-Platform Offering. Notably, the yoyo assistant is currently only available available in China.

Deepsek-R1 Integrated With Honor’s Yoyo Assistant

In a post On Weibo, the official handle of Honor Announced the Integration and the New Capability that the Yoyo Assistant Will Now Support. The Large Language Model (LLM) is available for that using magicos 8.0 and newer with the yoyo assistant version 80.0.1.503 and Newer.

Deepsek in the Yoyo Smart Store
Photo Credit: Weibo/Honor

To use Deepsek-R1, Honor Users in China will have to go to the yoyo smart store and find the model to initiate a conversation with it. The Deepseek Welcome screen contains the description, “I am an intelligent agent based on the open-source version of the deepsek-r1, dedicated to brings users an immersive deep thinking experience, helpless users to diger Deepend Report,

Notably, the integration has been rolled out in beta, and as such, it might come with glitches and bugs that can dampen the user experience. As per honor, Deepseek-R1 will improve the virtual assistant’s natural language processing, logical reasoning, and contextual understanding of complex commands. The company also announced that more than 13 Crore monthly active users use the yoyo virtual assistant.

The Deepsek-R1 is a Reasoning-Focused Model with Chain-of-Thought (COT) Transparency. This means users can see the feel process of the ai while it breaks down complex problems, double guesses its output and verifies it using alternative methods. The company did not reveal where the ai model will also be able to communicate and draw information from other apps or not.

While the current rollout only includes China, it is unsclear whether honor will also also introduce the open-source ai model to global markets. Notably, The Chinese Ai Model Has Faced Security Concerns after a Cybersecurity Firm Found evidence In the Deepsek Chatbot’s source code that links it to a chinese telecom firm that is banned in the us. Australian government and regulators in Italy has alredy banned the ai platform.