Honor’s New AI Agent Can Read and Understand Your Screen

We must all hate booking a table at a restaurant, because it’s once again the problem tech companies are trying to solve with the power of artificial intelligence. Honor has taken the wraps off of Honor UI Agent—a “GUI-based mobile AI agent” that claims to handle tasks on your behalf by understanding the screen's graphical user interface. WIRED had an early opportunity to see the demo ahead of the company's keynote at Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, where Honor also announced its $10 billion Honor Alpha Plan. This long-term plan, envisioned by the Chinese company's new CEO Jian Li, is lofty and largely corporate-speak, comprised of goals like “creating an intelligent phone" and “open human potential boundaries and cocreate a new paradigm for civilization.” What it really highlights is Honor's quick pivot into prioritizing AI development for its suite of personal technology devices. A GUI Agent In the demo, an Honor spokesperson asked Honor’s UI Agent to book a table for four people, gave a time, and specified “local food.” What happens next is a little jarring—not in the way Google's Duplex technology was when it debuted in 2018 and had Google Assistant interact with real humans to make reservations on your behalf.