China's Oppo taps Google for privacy AI push, taking a page from Apple's playbook

Oppo is the sixth-largest smartphone maker in China, according to Counterpoint Research. BARCELONA — Chinese smartphone firm Oppo is taking a page out of Apple's playbook with the launch of a private cloud computing system to keep users' sensitive conversations separate from its own artificial intelligence products. The company on Monday announced a deal with Google that will see it use the U.S. tech firm's Confidential Computing software, which uses encryption to ensure user data can't be viewed by third parties, to power a new privacy-preserving solution it's calling Private Computing Cloud. The idea is to make sure that users' sensitive data such as browser searches and private calls can't be shared with Oppo for the purposes of training its AI software. Oppo already has a partnership in place with Google, where the firm uses the internet search giant's Gemini foundation models to power its AI features. The privacy push mimics an effort from Apple to protect user data from its o ... Read full article.