When Motorola launched the Razr Plus 2024 phone this year, it also mentioned some of its artificial intelligence-powered tools, named Moto AI. However, we have only seen Moto AI through two photo creation tools like Magic Canvas and Style Sync. Now, Motorola has just announced at Lenovo Tech World 2024 that more Moto AI tools are coming, at least in a trial form.
Motorola discussed some Moto AI features earlier this year, including Catch Me Up and Remember This. The Catch Me Up feature allows you to get a priority summary of your notifications so you don’t have to scroll through a bunch of missed notifications. There’s also the Pay Attention feature, which helps users remember instructions or details without needing to write notes or listen to long recordings. It captures direct moments or information that appears on the screen when activated and saves them with AI-backed insights.
These features will finally be included in a trial program, with invites sent out throughout the year. Through the trial release, Motorola will enhance these tools in Moto AI based on customer feedback. Unfortunately, we don’t know which devices are included in this trial release or how individuals are selected to receive an invite. It’s a step in the right direction, but there’s still a lot unknown.
There’s also news about Moto AI regarding Large Action Models (LAMs). These are still just a proof-of-concept feature, but theoretically, they should be able to understand your environment, learn from your behavior to provide personalized responses, translate natural language into actions, and execute them on your behalf. In essence, Motorola’s LAM devices resemble personal assistants that understand context and deliver human-like interactions through natural language.
During Tech World 2024, Motorola demonstrated how Moto AI LAMs work using the command “order me an iced Americano” as an example. Moto AI would locate the nearest café for the user, place the order, and then inform the user it’s ready for pickup. Other use cases for this process could include common actions like ordering an Uber, where Moto AI would get destination info, confirm the ride, provide car details and pickup, and offer ETA.
Another Moto AI feature introduced by Motorola is Smart Connect. The goal of Smart Connect is to unify Motorola and Lenovo’s ecosystem systems, and using AI tools, this experience can be enhanced.
Smart Connect enables users to manage their devices through natural language commands. This means discovering everything, connecting to it, and controlling it from smartphones to smart home devices. It is essentially a hybrid artificial intelligence, choosing the best AI model for each task to enhance productivity and creativity. With Smart Connect, devices that do not already have embedded AI tools can be enabled for artificial intelligence. This may also include cross-device searches and smart actions.
All of this sounds impressive on paper. However, aside from the demonstrations, we still need to see how any of the LAMs will actually work in the real world. Additionally, Motorola first introduced Moto AI with the Razr series released in the summer, and we are now only getting more Moto AI features in a trial release – again, without clarity on how this trial release will be rolled out.
Such a gradual release doesn’t instill much confidence in how all of this will be achieved, especially when Motorola hasn’t even hinted at a possible timeline for LAMs and Smart Connect features, except for the phrase “in the near future” recently. It’s encouraging to hear the company talk about Moto AI again, but it’s clear that there is still a way for them to catch up with the likes of Samsung Galaxy AI and Apple Intelligence.
