Chinese company Honor displayed on Sunday (March 2) their new deepfake detection technology on its Magic 7 Pro smartphone ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

"Our deepfake detector can effectively inspect tiny details of pixels on your screen so it can detect those deepfakes and identify the deepfakes, tell our customers within six seconds," Honor's AI product expert Thomas Bai told Reuters.

Magic 7 Pro Smartphone also features a new AI agent able to complete features as booking a restaurant or erase an element from a picture with a one-sentence command.

"Magic 7 Pro, the core selling point for this product is AI. We have AI photography, AI deepfake detection functions here and we also have some of the AI agent possibilities in the future. So I think AI phone is what we are trying to produce on Magic 7 Pro," Bai said.

Tech and telecom companies are releasing new products and features ahead of the annual Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona set to kick off Monday (March 3), with AI and its regulation as most relevant topics.

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