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Huawei's Xiao Yi Work Enters Testing: Control Multiple PCs Remotely

Huawei's Xiao Yi Work Enters Internal Testing: A Remote Control Powerhouse

Huawei quietly announced on September 16 that its AI work assistant, Xiao Yi Work, has entered the internal testing phase. Positioned as a daily office sidekick for coding, creative work, and general tasks, it supports HarmonyOS phones, tablets, and computers. A Windows client (version 0.6.9) is already up for download on the official site, and HarmonyOS PC users can reserve the HarmonyOS version via the Xiao Yi App's left sidebar.

Your Tasks Keep Running, Even When You Step Away

The real magic? You can leave your computer, but your tasks keep chugging along. After you give Xiao Yi Work a goal, it autonomously breaks it down, calls the right tools, and gets to work. You can watch progress in real time and review key decision points. Better yet, it supports cross-device collaboration: your phone, tablet, and computer all talk to each other. So you can fire off a task from your phone, check on it later, and grab the results—all without being chained to your desk. The execution environment can be cloud-based or local, and you can connect multiple computers at once.

Experts for Every Task, From PPTs to Posters

Huawei says the service automatically matches you with experts for collaboration, covering research analysis, content creation, and programming. Need to polish a project presentation? Xiao Yi Work can optimize your PPT. Want to add comments to core function code? Done. Designing visual posters for an event? It's on it.

Membership: Points, Data, and Privacy

Membership benefits include AI points, which are consumed based on task complexity. But pay attention to the fine print: after a paid member's subscription expires, data is retained for 7 days. For free members, data is deleted immediately upon expiration and cannot be recovered. The memory function summarizes your personal preferences, schedules, and work info for cross-session memory and multi-device sync—and Huawei says this data is not used for model training.

Under the Hood: A Mix of AI Models

Records show the service involves algorithms like DeepSeek's large language model, Huawei Cloud PanGu NLP, MiniMax text synthesis, Zhipu interactive content generation, and Moonshot language model from Yue Zhi An Mian. In other words, it's a blend of some of the most talked-about AI technologies out there.

Key Points

  • Xiao Yi Work is in internal testing, supporting HarmonyOS phones, tablets, and computers, plus a Windows client.
  • It autonomously decomposes tasks, calls tools, and allows remote control and monitoring from multiple devices.
  • The service matches experts for research, content creation, and programming tasks.
  • Membership uses AI points; free user data is deleted immediately after expiration.
  • The memory function syncs across devices and is not used for model training.
  • It leverages multiple AI models, including DeepSeek, Huawei Cloud PanGu NLP, MiniMax, Zhipu, and Moonshot.