Your OnePlus 13 will get a dedicated AI “thinking space”. What does this mean

Currently, every phone manufacturer has to develop plans to integrate AI into their devices, which is a non-negotiable issue. OnePlus was a little late at the party, but it was already here. On Tuesday, the company announced plans to bring its own personalized AI vision to OnePlus phones, including the OnePlus 13.

At a launch event in London last week, I not only saw the first AI feature to log in to the OnePlus phone, but also learned about the company’s plans for the future to bring more complex and complex AI features to its phone.

With all Android phone manufacturers increasingly leveraging first-class Qualcomm chips and relying on Google’s Gemini AI, having a strong AI strategy is one way they can differentiate themselves from their competitors. I was impressed by the extent to which OnePlus seemed to be thinking about the idea that it wasn’t rushing into the ham on AI. Its initial AI rollout could attract attention, even if its ideas aren’t exactly primitive.

OnePlus’ statement AI tool is called Plus Mind, which can be saved, suggested, stored and searched based on the current saving, suggestions, storage and search on your phone screen, and the details that end up storing the details in the application OnePlus are called “Mind Space”. Also, you can activate your mind at any time via dedicated buttons (if your phone has one) or by swiping gestures. If you find details about the event or booking, it will recommend creating a calendar entry.

Mind Space is the place to “organize your fragmented memories”, said Arthur Lam, director of Oxygenos and AI strategy at the company. This is a hub where all your most important content is available. AI search will allow you to find what you need without overloading information that you might be using, or it will automatically convert the content to another language to make it accessible and searchable.

Additionally, Mind will debut with the upcoming OnePlus 13S, a phone designed specifically for the Asian market with dedicated AI buttons on the sides of the phone (OnePlus is called “Plus Key”). This means that for people in the United States and Europe, we have to wait longer to enjoy OnePlus’ vision for ourselves. It will eventually be updated as a sky later this year to OnePlus 13, although the company has not yet determined when it will be.

Plus space of thinking: my first impression

On the OnePlus 13 shipped before adding the Plus key, you have to use a three-finger swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to activate the AI ​​feature. When I test this question myself, can I get it to work. It definitely has a trick – you need to start from a few centimeters above the lower edge – and it’s likely to accidentally replace the content on the screen.

It’s obvious that the OnePlus designed plus thinking will work with dedicated buttons, and there’s no doubt that all future OnePlus phones will have their own plus sign. But, in retrospect, the keys were lost in its 2025 flagship phone.

After saving a variety of content with Plus Mind, I have a different view on how useful it is. The process of capturing and creating events from the details displayed on the screen is seamless, and I found that I was able to use natural language in my mind space to pull up the details of these events after the fact. But when I find it interesting to save the article, the mind space cannot provide a summary of what I am reading – only in specific text on the screen when I activate the mind.

I also strive to organize the content into a collection within the mind space. This is a manual process, not a case where AI takes over everything you save. It feels a bit like a missed opportunity.

Like other Android phone manufacturers, OnePlus can take advantage of the best features of Google’s Gemini phone tool, while also choosing other features it wants to bring to the phone to make them stand out from the competition. That said, its initial attempt to get into AI with a mind space compares things that are not related to the necessary space–its own dedicated hub for saving content, snippets, links and reminders.

What’s next for OnePlus AI?

In addition, thinking space is just the first part of OnePlus’ three-stage AI strategy. Next is integrating a large language model into Plus Mind so that your phone can understand your habits to create it for understanding your “role”.

“This will help you understand yourself,” Lin said, which can even help you discover something “surprising” or “inspiring” about yourself.

Phase 3 is the OnePlus plan to go all out to become a personal assistant who can know everything about you. But the company isn’t there yet. Meanwhile, it has some other ideas in the pipeline.

AI Voicescribe comes to India first (not the EU or the US), which will give you a quick summary of whatsApp, Snapchat or Telegram after a call, as well as AI Call Assistant, which gives you full phone translations in text and sound.

On a more interesting side, OnePlus is introducing two AI photo tools. The first is AI Best Face 2.0, which will allow you to correct the faces of 20 people in a group photo so that everyone looks the best (e.g., if they close their eyes, or “suboptimal expression” as Oneplus describes). Meanwhile, the AI ​​reframe will analyze your careless holiday snapshots and suggest creating creative crops and frames that make your shots look like they don’t look like three cocktails.

These photo features will be available to OnePlus phones this summer, but for the launch of the major OnePlus AI tools, you may have to wait a little longer.