OnePlus is taking a big step towards offering truly personalized AI on your phone, and it’s using Google Gemini to get there. The company has confirmed a new integration to its existing Mind Space feature that turns your saved notes, thoughts and personal context into something an AI can actually understand and use.
If this works as promised, it could make your OnePlus feel even more like a digital companion, building on the already brilliant idea of Mind Space.
Speaking to TechRadar Phones editor Axel Metz, OnePlus Europe CMO Celina Shi shared an exclusive statement outlining what the company is building with Google. Shi says the goal is simple: Make AI truly personal by connecting Google’s flagship model directly to what you store in Mind Space.
“To maximize the potential of Mind Space, we’ve also partnered with Google to deeply integrate Mind Space with Google Gemini. This powerful integration allows Gemini to access information you’ve stored in Mind Space and combine it with its advanced LLM and real-time Internet access, making it the industry’s first personal AI with Gemini.
As someone who loves the idea of Mind Space – an AI-powered storage shelf, triggered by the plus key, where you can contextually store any information on your device – this new Google integration is incredibly exciting.
Judging by Shi’s comments, Gemini will be able to use your personal data inside Mind Space to answer questions, help plan things, and automate tasks based on your context, something most AI assistants today still struggle with.
What is Mind Space trying to do?
Mind Space is OnePlus’ way of giving users a home for the things floating around their heads. Think tasks, goals, reminders and notes – you can save what you care about, and instead of letting it disappear into an app you forget, the phone should be able to do something meaningful with it.
With Gemini in the mix, the OnePlus 15 with OxygenOS 16 could understand that you want to plan a birthday, finish a house project or finally book a city break. It can help you research, draft notices, build lists and handle details automatically. That’s the promise. It’s a big shift from AI that responds to commands to AI that works based on context.
Whether that’s exciting or invasive depends on how much you trust Google and OnePlus with your data. But this is also where the industry is headed. AI makes a lot more sense when it knows exactly who you are, and the more information you give it, the better it gets.
OnePlus’ AI promise
OxygenOS 16 is OnePlus’ next big software push, and the company says it’s trying to move AI beyond novelty.
The software update will debut on the OnePlus 15 and is built around a philosophy OnePlus calls “Intelligent Yours.” The idea is that the AI should adapt to you and not the other way around.
The company says this is meant to make everyday life easier, unlock creativity, help you feel more organized and keep everything safe. All that without slowing down the phone.
If that sounds familiar, it’s because all phone brands now say something similar. But the Gemini connection is really interesting. Samsung also leans on Google, but OnePlus claims this is the first time Gemini has been linked directly to a personal storage system like Mind Space.
OnePlus working closely with Google makes sense. It doesn’t have the resources to build its own foundational model, but the company knows how to make features feel fast and light, something that has been its identity for a decade.
We will have to see how Mind Space and Gemini work together in practice. But this is the most ambitious sign yet that OnePlus wants a seat at the table in the next wave of smartphone AI. If it pulls it off, your OnePlus could soon feel more like a brain extension than a screen.
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