Honor CEO James Li: The Battle for AI Entry Points Is Not a Zero-Sum Game Over Existing Stocks; the Industry Should Return Entry Sovereignty to Users

Honor CEO Li Jian: The battle over AI entry points is not a zero-sum game over existing stock; the industry should return entry-point sovereignty to users

2026-11-06 14:41 IT Home - Wang Miao

IT Home, November 6, on-site report: Honor CEO Li Jian delivered a keynote speech today (November 6) at the 2026 Mobile Network Conference, sharing his thoughts on industrial evolution in the intelligent economy era around the theme of "user-centric, jointly building entry points, jointly building trust, and jointly creating the future."

Li Jian said that the deep integration of computing power, large models, and embodied intelligence is reshaping the underlying logic of industry, the economy, and society. What AI brings is not local feature fine-tuning, but a disruptive reconstruction of workflows and production paradigms across the entire industry. At present, however, users' daily interactions are still continuously mired in the consumption of cumbersome app switching and repeated operations, and human-computer interaction mostly remains at the stage of "people seeking services."

In Li Jian's view, the core variable determining the direction of business paradigms is "scarcity," and the history of industrial evolution is essentially a process of iteration of scarce factors: in the mobile communication economy era, connectivity was abundant and information was scarce, corresponding to the channel economy of content monetization; in the mobile internet economy era, attention was scarce, forming the attention economy of traffic monetization; entering the intelligent economy era, intent delegation has become the new scarcity, and business logic has shifted to the intent economy of monetizing outcomes. In the past, entry points were icons available for clicking; in the future, entry points will be born at the moment users generate intent, and the core of value will reside in every outcome entrusted by users.

Li Jian said, "Entry points need not be fought over; trust will gather on its own." In the past, the industry often built moats by building walls of closure, but users' lives have no boundaries, and fragmented ecosystem barriers will ultimately fragment a coherent intelligent experience. The entry point Honor wants to build is not about raising walls higher, but about broadening pathways: at one end, gathering various service ecosystems based on real user needs and scenarios; at the other end, gathering the model ecosystem, connecting cloud models, computing power supply, and full-chain AI service supply.

IT Home learned on-site at the conference that, looking to the future, Honor will work with China Mobile and ecosystem partners in open co-creation to build a user-centric intelligent economy ecosystem:

Jointly building entry points: YOYO will link with partners such as Lingxi, Qwen, Doubao, and Gemini to build an agent network, providing rich and diverse solutions for differentiated user needs;

Jointly building trust: working with China Mobile to jointly build a complete trust chain covering trusted networks, trusted identity, trusted settlement, trusted operations, and trusted terminals;

Jointly creating models: Honor and China Mobile will jointly launch Token packages for the first time on customized Honor Magic9 series devices, and Honor will also work with more partners to continuously explore new business models around Token distribution, user subscriptions, customized terminals, and service distribution.