OPPO announced yesterday that it has reached a partnership with the AI agent platform Manus. It will integrate Manus’s agent capabilities into OPPO’s AI Mind Pilot, enabling phones to shift from simply “answering questions” to “performing tasks”. Tang Kai, President of OPPO’s Software Engineering Department, highlighted this key change: AI agents are no longer just for responding, but also for understanding intentions, executing actions, and delivering results. Zhang Tao, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Manus, said that smartphones are the natural platform for personal agents to handle a wide range of daily tasks.
The actual goal of both parties is to integrate Manus capabilities into the new AI Mind Pilot mode, which will be first available on the OPPO Find X10 series equipped with ColorOS 17. It will no longer be limited to simple questions and answers, but will understand the user’s ultimate goal, automatically break it down into multiple steps, retrieve information, select tools, and produce complete results. It may even directly manipulate the device’s files and photos. For example, when planning a trip, you just say “organize a travel plan,” and it will retrieve scattered flight tickets, hotels, restaurants, and tickets from various apps, then combine them with online information to generate a daily itinerary. In office creation, a single command can organize travel photos, locate a specific image, or merge local and online materials to produce a PPT, plan, or portfolio that can be used directly.
On-device privacy protection, the cloud has asked you first
The privacy arrangement is another advantage of this strategy: ColorOS 17 uses a local model that processes and organizes data on the device itself. Tasks such as checking files and renaming do not leave the device or are transmitted to Manus. Once a task needs to be uploaded to the cloud, AI Mind Pilot will only do so with the user’s explicit permission. OPPO and Manus emphasize that users can decide independently which information can be accessed, which operations can be performed, and whether external processing is allowed—by leveraging local computing and transparent authorization, they combine “greater intelligence” with “control”. The AI Mind Pilot backed by Manus will be the first to appear on the Find X10 series.