While we haven’t seen the highly-anticipated iPhone 16 with our own eyes yet, when the opportunity presented itself at MWC 2024, we thought we’d ask one of Xiaomi’s new AI-toting tablets to give it its own masterpiece. Take a crack at presenting the interpretation. Apple’s next big smartphone… has an interesting result.
Mobile World Congress, which takes place every year in Barcelona, gives us access to all kinds of weird and wonderful tech, and at Xiaomi’s booth the company was showing off a lot of new stuff: from its latest Xiaomi 14 series of smartphones; Up to your first car. One of the most eye-catching products at the show was the new Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro 12.4.
While the tablet itself looks like an attractive new alternative to the likes of Apple’s iPad Air or Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S9 series – packing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, a crisp and responsive 3K 144Hz display and The fastest charging we’ve ever seen. A slate, at 120W – It was a new AI Pen feature built into Xiaomi’s Mi Canvas app on the 6S Pro that we wanted to put to the test, working with (digital) inking on the next iPhone.
With a short iPhone doodle of our own creation as a guide, we simply entered a text prompt saying ‘iPhone 16’, dialed the ‘AI Involvement’ slider to its 90% maximum and four I chose ‘watercolour’. Default art style. Then, all we had to do was wait 30 to 40 seconds for the tablet to generate four conceptual images, from which we chose the ‘best’.
The result is a decidedly brilliant take on Apple’s next potential smartphone, with the AI making some stylistic choices about the watercolor tone work, as well as some really interesting design choices that are out of the realm of possibility. Do not come out.
Despite the relatively square smartphone silhouette in our initial sketch, AI opted for more heavily rounded corners on its iPhone 16 concept. One design choice we’ve seen Google make with the transition from the Pixel 7 series to the Pixel 8. The camera module takes on a more rectangular shape, spacing the trio of lenses further apart vertically, while the bottom of the iPhone 16’s back is accented by a vaguely familiar contrast bar that looks like It may have been lifted directly from the original iPhone.
You can watch the entire process from start to finish on our TikTok below:
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While we don’t have deep insight into the training models used by Xiaomi’s AI, it’s clear that it already understands what an iPhone is. He realized that the circles in the upper left corner represented camera lenses and that the distorted Pac-Man in the center of the initial sketch was actually an Apple logo, which he rendered perfectly.
In this context, there is also the case of AI image generation. Using an initial user-generated sketch before layering both text-based prompts and a predefined art style for the AI as a set of guidelines, there was only so far it could go. was, while still accomplishing what was asked of him.
There is a significant difference between true AI-based image creation and reinterpretation, which is what Xiaomi’s technology is all about. That said, there’s little reason to believe that we can’t soon have AI image generators that adapt to the context of the current mobile market, Apple’s latest aesthetic, and the iPhone’s design leaks and pre-existing leaks. Rumors add, all as factors to create an even better iPhone 16 concept.
One thing’s for sure, while this may be one of the first AI-generated iPhone 16 renders we’ve seen, it certainly won’t be the last before the actual phone’s expected debut in September later this year. .