According to Jiemian, ByteDance is actively promoting in-depth AI phone cooperation with leading hardware manufacturers such as vivo, Lenovo, and Transsion. The company plans to pre-install AIGC plugins (such as "Doubao Phone Assistant") on device operating systems, aiming to seize crucial AI traffic entry points and change the current passive situation in large model execution. Multiple internal employees of vivo have confirmed the collaboration, and they are discussing the details of implementation.

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The core of this collaboration lies in ByteDance's highly attractive "revenue-sharing plan." According to insiders, in order to break the previous hesitation of smartphone manufacturers toward third-party AI, ByteDance's strategy is not simply technology output, but building a new traffic monetization path: including waiving custom development fees and Token sales revenue sharing, instead allowing smartphone manufacturers to directly participate in traffic distribution, membership subscriptions, and revenue sharing from "secondary traffic."

This model precisely addresses the pain points of smartphone manufacturers—previously, vivo's deep collaboration with Tencent had stalled due to high Token costs and difficulty in commercializing the technology. ByteDance's profit-sharing strategy undoubtedly provides a new option for vivo, Transsion, and other manufacturers eager to enhance their AI competitiveness.