vivo previews BlueCode phone coding agent and researches a 30B MoE on-device model

vivo has released a preview version of BlueCode, a native coding agent that lets users complete software development tasks on the phone itself. The company presented it at its developer conference in Shenzhen and describes the goal as turning phones from content consumption terminals into productivity tools. The reports name no supported devices, release date or technical details for the preview.

vivo is also researching a 30B-parameter BlueLM MoE model for on-device use, according to Tencent News. MoE means the model is split into expert sub-networks and only part of it is active per token. Vice President Zhou Wei said the research aims to explore trillion-scale model applications on phones, and that memory and compute are the main barriers to running large models on them. If model capability improves substantially, each load would need only about 3 to 12 GB of memory, the report quotes him as saying.

The 30B model sits next to the BlueLM lineup that vivo announced at the same event, which has four models for speech (BlueLM-RealTime), on-device use (BlueLM-Nano) and the cloud (BlueLM-Flash and BlueLM-Pro). According to NetEase, BlueLM-Nano handles local perception and personal memory on the device. vivo also launched OriginOS 7, and BlueOS 4 arrives on the vivo WATCH 6.