What apps have been added to your phone this year? Many people have at least one answer that is artificial intelligence (AI). DeepSeek's little dolphins or Dou Bao's big eyed cute girls have become the "bestsellers" of mobile apps this year. According to the latest data from Huawei's application market, Doubao has been installed 2.6 billion times, DeepSeek has also reached 1.2 billion times, followed closely by products such as Yuanbao and Kimi. The "Research Report on the Development of China's AI Terminal Ecology in 2025" released by QuestMobile, a third-party data agency, shows that as of October 2025, the scale of AI mobile terminal users has reached 720 million. AI has entered daily work and life in all aspects, and "asking AI when faced with problems" has become a daily routine for many people. Ms. Yu from Beijing has become accustomed to using bean buns to solve math problems, check homework, and even explain wrong questions to elementary school children, which used to be a headache for her; Aunt Zeng, who is currently traveling in Zhuhai, relied on AI planning for her "all the way south" journey, "answering questions as soon as possible and saving the trouble of typing". This year, AI has not only become a "helper" in life, but also a "helper" in work. Mr. Yao, a Shenzhen office worker, has the most intuitive feeling this year that AI has become a standard feature for professionals. "There are several AI devices installed on mobile phones and computers, each with their own division of labor. They can basically handle tasks such as making PPTs, writing reports, and processing data. ”Mr. Yao said that compared to the pursuit of "trying new things" at the beginning of the year, nowadays people are more concerned about how to deeply embed AI into workflows, and achieve "handing over repetitive work to AI and leaving thinking space for oneself". It's not just professionals who are evolving, AI itself is also constantly evolving. At the beginning of the year, DeepSeek was still popular worldwide, and at the end of the year, the "hot selling" Lingguang AI assistant sparked a wave of "hand rubbing mini programs" on social media platforms. 'Lingguang' hopes to provide a multimodal output capability based on full code generation, offering a rich creative experience with both graphics and text. This is also a key iteration in product technology, "said Cai Wei, the head of Ant Lingguang. At the same time as artificial intelligence apps enter mobile phones, the AI content in other apps is also increasing. From shopping to traveling, from banking to handling affairs, if there is no AI icon popping up on the homepage or when scrolling through the app, I suspect that this app is not the latest version. ”Aunt Zeng said. E-commerce platform apps can be said to be the landing point with the highest AI "content" - from AI assistants "taking over" customer service to digital live streaming sales. By 2025, major e-commerce platforms will compete to promote the landing of AI technology. Nowadays, AI is not only deeply integrated into the entire shopping process of consumers, but also a deeper level of intelligent transformation is unfolding in the background that consumers cannot see. An e-commerce practitioner revealed that some AI "store managers" can even automatically analyze competitor prices, inventory levels, and user needs, intelligently set discount levels, and reduce the operational burden on merchants. A person in charge of JD.com told reporters that during the "Double Eleven" period in 2025, the JD JoyAI big model has been applied in more than 1800 scenarios, serving over 3 million merchants on JD.com; The live streaming cost of JD's digital person JoyStreamer is only 1/10 of that of a real person, with an effect exceeding 80% of real streamers. It has served over 40000 brand merchants, covering more than 60 categories such as beauty, clothing, home furnishings, and 3C. As of now, the number of digital person live streaming viewers has exceeded 17 million, driving a cumulative total of over 700 million yuan in product transactions. AI will bring profound changes to the industrial landscape. AI has already demonstrated its powerful ability to empower consumption, and it will also bring profound changes to the industrial landscape. The industry generally believes that the rapid and deep penetration of AI may bring the end of the traditional app era. On December 10th, the Quantum Bit Think Tank released the "Top 10 Trends in AI 2025" report, stating that AI (artificial intelligence) is moving from the "tool age" to the "partner age" in 2025, and its development will profoundly reshape the economic structure, social form, and human way of life. One important trend is that AI is reshaping traffic entry points. AI agents are transitioning from "people looking for services" to "services looking for people", becoming the next generation of interaction paradigms and gradually replacing traditional apps. The application of AI intelligent agents on the end side may gradually make traditional apps' invisible '. ”Chen Jianguang, Co Head of Artificial Intelligence and Data Consulting Services at Anyong Greater China, stated that AI agents in mobile phones will be able to intelligently push notifications or perform tasks based on users' context, location, history, and other factors, without the need for users to actively launch the app. However, to completely replace the existing app ecosystem, AI agents still face many challenges. The 'Doubao mobile phone' is the best example. From its initial release on December 1st, when it ran out of stock and even triggered limit up in related stocks, to being "stopped" by some mainstream apps on December 3rd, the "flowering period" of this "first generation" smartphone was only two short days. Firstly, there are security and privacy issues. When AI agents run on the end side, they involve a large amount of real-time data processing and personalized decision-making. How to ensure the secure processing of user data locally and prevent data leakage or abuse remains a core issue that needs to be addressed by technology and regulation. ”Chen Jianguang stated. In addition, experts such as Chen Jianguang believe that the future industrial ecological game will be very intense. In the traditional app ecosystem, advertising, in app purchases, and subscriptions are the main sources of revenue, and AI agents replacing traditional apps with personalized services may change these profit models. It is expected that the next 3 to 5 years will be a mixed period of super apps and AI agents coexisting. ”A series of smarter, more efficient, and imaginative new life scenarios and ecological blueprints are slowly unfolding. (New Society)