Hisense Launches JUOS, Industry's First Home-Companion-Level AIOS

According to Li Wei, president of Hisense Visual Technology, personal AI is about understanding an individual, whereas home AI must identify different family members and understand multiple scenarios in the household. With JUOS, he said, the home TV shifts from a device that waits for commands to a companion that has senses, a brain, communication and the ability to act.

The first core upgrade centers on the system-level home AI agent called Super Xiaoju. Hisense says the TV assistant supports natural question-and-answer conversations and accepts fragmented search clues such as lines of dialogue or character names. Viewers can ask questions about unfamiliar actors or game rules without pausing the program, an industry-first feature named Xiaoju Ask Screen. In standby mode, the assistant still responds to requests for bedtime stories, music and weather. It also detects emotional tone in user speech and responds accordingly.

The second upgrade is the AI personalized desktop, which uses the industry-first Xiaoju Person Recognition capability. By integrating identity, time and environment, JUOS dynamically builds a unique home screen for each family member. Elderly users automatically get a simplified interface with larger fonts and quick access to opera and news; children see age-appropriate content and receive reminders about viewing distance and duration; adults receive weather forecasts, continue-watching cues and match reminders. Users can manage family memory data and system permissions themselves.

The third upgrade is cross-device experience continuity. The Xiaoju Miaolian feature allows content and playback progress to move seamlessly between small screens and the living-room TV. When a NAS, set-top box or game console connects, the system automatically recognizes the device and selects optimal picture, sound and control modes. Through deep integration with the Hisense Aija ecosystem, a single voice command from the TV screen can coordinate air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines and companion robots across the home.

The JUOS rollout covers recent Hisense U/E/A series TVs, laser TVs, and Vidda-brand TVs and projectors. According to Hisense, the first batch of devices will receive the update starting in September, and later models will be added gradually.

Underneath, the Xinghai large model is tuned for home scenarios with multimodal understanding, intent recognition, reasoning planning and tool execution. Hisense says intent recognition and tool execution accuracy exceed 95 percent, first-token multimodal response latency is below 175 milliseconds, and the model has obtained a 4+ rating from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. The system also integrates four engines: the Lingxi family context engine, the Xiaoju multi-agent collaboration engine, the Xinghai context engine and a global action closure engine, together forming the perception, thought, communication and execution loop. JUOS has received an L3 certificate under the AI terminal intelligence grading framework, which Hisense says is the highest rating for large-screen AI.

The launch is part of Hisense's shift from 'connecting the home' to 'understanding the home,' according to the company. Hisense says it has built a four-layer full-stack industry architecture covering key components, large models, intelligent agents and physical AI, using its self-developed chip matrix, a vertical-domain large model ecosystem, the JUOS platform and the Aija AIoT cloud to deliver services across displays and whole-home devices.