Apple's "Highlight Moment" Press Conference: iPhone 16 Series Leads the New Era of AI Phones

At 1 am on September 10, Beijing time, Apple unveiled its highly anticipated new product lineup at its annual autumn press conference, including the Apple Watch Series 10 smart watch, AirPods 4 headphones, and the iPhone 16 series of phones. Although the new product line has made breakthroughs in both hardware and software, undoubtedly the most attention-grabbing is the new generation of iPhone and its integrated Apple Intelligence function.

 

The iPhone 16 series has achieved a qualitative leap in hardware, upgrading from the A16 bionic chip to the A18 bionic chip. The latter is manufactured using 3nm technology, with a 30% increase in CPU speed and a 30% improvement in energy efficiency. The GPU of the A18 chip has also received a 40% speed boost and a 35% reduction in energy consumption. More importantly, this chip supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing technology, enabling the iPhone 16 to run high-quality 3A games smoothly.

 

The professional version, iPhone 16 Pro, is equipped with an even more powerful A18 Pro chip, featuring a 6-core CPU and a 6-core GPU, further optimizing the performance-to-power consumption ratio. In terms of photography, the Pro series is equipped with a 48-megapixel fused camera, supports 4K 120fps format shooting, and provides more abundant functions in audio processing, such as overlaying audio tracks and layered creation.

 

On the software level, Apple introduced the Apple Intelligence function for the first time in an all-round way. It unfolds around three aspects: language understanding, image recognition, and motion perception. Users can obtain detailed information about objects through the phone camera or retrieve and create content summaries through voice commands. However, this function is currently only available in beta version in the US market and is limited to the English version. Chinese language support is expected to be available only next year.

 

It is worth noting that the launch of Apple Intelligence shows Apple's layout in the field of artificial intelligence. Although the function is not fully open yet, it has already shown Apple's vision for the future of AI phones. With the development of AI technology, smart devices will become a more closely interconnected whole, bringing revolutionary changes in user experience.

 

In China, the research and development and application of large AI models are also showing a booming trend. As of March 2024, a total of 117 GenAI have been filed, including well-known products such as Wenxin Yiyan and Tongyi Qianwen. These large models not only serve the mobile phone field but also play an important role in many other industries. Among them, the evaluation of the core values of AI large models released by Knownsec has become an important tool to measure whether various AI models meet social and ethical standards, promoting the healthy and orderly development of AI technology.

 

Apple's latest release heralds the real beginning of the era of AI phones. Although there is currently no so-called "killer" AI phone product on the market, with the progress of technology and the improvement of the application ecosystem, it is believed that in the near future, AI will become an indispensable part of smartphones. At the same time, enterprises like Knownsec, while promoting the progress of AI technology, are also committed to ensuring that the application of technology follows the correct value orientation, which is crucial for building a more responsible AI ecosystem. As more manufacturers join this competition, the future AI phone market will surely be full of infinite possibilities.