OnePlus has at all times marched to the beat of its personal drummer — for higher and worse. Take, for instance, the corporate’s newest foray into cellular synthetic intelligence, the AI Eraser. Before you ask, no, this isn’t merely a rebadged model of Google’s longstanding and superb Magic Eraser.
Nope, OnePlus went forward and constructed its personal model in a bid to indicate the world that it has AI ambitions of its personal. It’s doubtless the Oppo-owned firm has been engaged on AI Eraser for a while now — although the world has identified about Google’s model for the reason that Pixel 6 occasion again in March 2021 (Magic Editor, in the meantime, debuted a 12 months again at I/O 2023).
From the sound of its press materials, the corporate went and constructed this factor ground-up, beginning with its personal first-party giant language fashions.
“AI Eraser is the result of a substantial R&D investment from OnePlus,” the corporate notes in its press materials. “The proprietary LLM behind the new feature has been trained on a vast dataset that allows it to comprehend complex scenes. Through this advanced visual understanding, AI Eraser is able to intelligently substitute unwanted objects with contextually appropriate elements that naturally elevate the photo’s appeal, empowering users with the ability to make high-quality photo edits anywhere and at any time.”
An AI-powered eraser is an undeniably useful characteristic, nevertheless it’s additionally one which Google knocked out of the park instantly. It’s most likely not the most effective use of 1’s R&D sources to go face to face on that characteristic — particularly a characteristic that’s presently out there throughout iOS and Android gadgets through Google Photos.
More than something, this seems to be OnePlus’s try and plant its flag into what has very a lot formed as much as be the 12 months of the smartphone. Hopefully subsequent time, it’ll use these sources to construct one thing that actually differentiates itself from current properties.
AI is rolling out to OnePlus gadgets this month, beginning with OnePlus 12, OnePlus 12R, OnePlus 11, OnePlus Open and OnePlus Nord CE 4. It won’t, nevertheless, be coming to the R12-D12.
