STEPX Neo hands-on: dual-domain memory, intent-as-a-service and a maker ecosystem
新智元 · wechat · 2026-10-13
A deep dive into STEPX Neo, the newly launched LLM-native agentic phone from STEP/StepFun, framing it as designed backwards from what an agent needs rather than bolting AI onto a phone.
Hardware: a six-mic array with Whisper 1.0 and a low-power audio chip for hearing, a rear MiniLED display showing Amoo's six working states, and a dedicated AI key. StepAOS implements a dual-domain layered memory system — user preferences in one domain, agent's accumulated task experience in the other — continuously consolidated via record, reason, recall, unlike assistants that reset each session.
Amoo connects to nearly 100 partners (Alipay, Tencent, Ctrip, Didi) via the H2A2A protocol to complete multi-app tasks like booking and paying. Safety rests on verifiable, visible, controllable, reversible actions. For makers, StepStudio enables conversational creation of Skills and Agents across model, system, hardware and ecosystem layers; demos include a flying skateboard and a social-icebreaker skill. Price: 3,999 yuan bundled with 10B tokens/month for a year, plus a free-upgrade ticket for the first 10,000 qualifying buyers.
Related event: StepFun Launches STEPX Neo, Its First AI Agent Phone, at 3999 Yuan(5 posts)→
More from Embodied
- FLUX 3 Action Tops RoboLab-120 at 42.9%, Bringing Video Pretraining to Robotics — DeepLearningAI · 2026-10-15
- DeployRobo launches as the generalist robot deployment company, backed by Y Combinator — ycombinator · 2026-10-14
- Robot foundation-model startups are all opening APIs — the model layer was never the moat — chris_j_paxton · 2026-10-14
- Metal Arm: a $2,499 6-axis CNC robot arm that ships in a week, built on LeRobot — chris_j_paxton · 2026-10-14
- NovaPlan (CoRL 2026): zero-shot long-horizon robot manipulation with no demonstrations — chris_j_paxton · 2026-10-14
- Ukrainian FPV Drone Sim Leaves Early Access, Players Generate Training Data — generativist · 2026-10-14