Cinemo Bring Your AI™ enables AI workloads to run on smartphones and in the cloud, rather than relying on in-vehicle hardware. As a result, in-car intelligence continues to improve long after the car is built, without costly hardware changes or complex integrations.
Cinemo Bring Your AI™
Cinemo Bring Your AI™
Making the user's smartphone the vehicle's primary compute extension
Cinemo Bring Your AI™ transforms the ride by bringing the power of the user’s smartphone to the vehicle. OEMs can deliver intelligent, personalized experiences and advanced AI services across a broader range of vehicles – without costly hardware changes or complex integrations.
Hardware is fixed at design time. AI isn’t.
Understanding the challenges of traditional approaches
An OEM choosing AI hardware today may be building for a 2028 launch. But vehicles stay on the road for 10 years or more. By the time the car reaches customers, the AI chip selected years earlier may already be outdated.
- Upgrading head units: Increases BOM cost and still ties AI performance to hardware chosen long before launch.
- Adding a dedicated AI box: Adds hardware cost, requires extra integration, and carries the same risk of becoming outdated.
- OEM-owned connectivity: Keeps data plans and connectivity costs with the vehicle, making it harder to meet cost-focused goals.
How it works
The phone brings the AI
Access to compute, connectivity, and the latest technology - refreshed every one to two years through consumer devices, rather than fixed vehicle hardware.
The car brings its capabilities
Vehicle information, media experiences, and supported vehicle controls. Everything only the car can offer.
Cinemo connects them
A managed layer connects the smartphone and the vehicle, enabling AI-powered experiences in the cabin without requiring OEMs to redesign or re-architect the vehicle.
What makes Cinemo Bring Your AI™ different
It’s an AI compute strategy, not screen mirroring
The phone offloads AI processing and connectivity, it doesn’t just project an app onto the dashboard.
The vehicle contributes, the phone elevates
Vehicle data and controls combine with passenger AI services into one experience.
Balance of on-device and cloud AI
OEMs decide what runs where, without committing the choice to hardware.
Scalable deployment across vehicle segments
Because the approach reduces dependency on dedicated AI hardware, it supports broader scalability. Intelligent features can be introduced across different vehicle lines without requiring major hardware changes.
Continuous evolution of the experience
Cinemo Bring Your AI™ enables advanced AI agents and services even on head units without AI acceleration, in-car connectivity, or embedded speech processing, and without requiring dedicated AI hardware or major changes to the head unit.
Richer interaction
By offloading AI processing beyond the vehicle, Cinemo Bring Your AI™ enables richer in-car interactions without relying solely on onboard compute power. This allows automotive experiences to become more conversational, context-aware, and responsive.
Use cases to explore with us
Knowledge
Intelligent Vehicle Manual
Vehicle knowledge through natural language and avoid digging through manuals or menus.
“How do I activate adaptive cruise control?”
“What does this warning light mean?”
“Where can I adjust the ambient lighting settings?”
Control
Vehicle Function Control
Conversational interaction with supported vehicle functions for a more natural cabin.
“Set the cabin temperature to 21 degrees.”
“Turn on the seat heating.”
“Switch to driver-focused climate settings.”
Media
Cinemo ICO™ MediaMind
AI-powered discovery and control of media content, based on context.
“Play relaxing music for a long highway drive.”
“What’s on the live news right now that I’d care about?”
“Create a playlist for a weekend road trip.”
Become an early evaluation partner
Cinemo is running prototype evaluations of Cinemo Bring Your AI™ with a limited number of OEM partners.
Head unit environments
- Platforms running Linux, AOSP, or Android Automotive OS (AAOS)
- Bluetooth connectivity with a smartphone
- Audio input and output capabilities
- Support for deploying and evaluating prototype software
What we explore together
- Innovative AI powered in-experiences
- Vehicle integration points (climate, seats, status info)
- Vehicle information sources (manual, guides, feature description)
- Integration complexity and future opportunities