OnePlus is taking a big step towards offering truly personal AI on its phone and it’s using Google Gemini to achieve it. The company has confirmed a new integration for its existing Mind Space feature, turning 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 Mind Space’s already brilliant idea.
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 everything you store in Mind Space.
“To maximize the potential of Mind Space, we have also partnered with Google to deeply integrate Mind Space with Google Gemini. This powerful integration allows Gemini to access the information you have stored in Mind Space and combine it with your advanced LLM and real-time Internet access, making it the industry’s first personalized AI with Gemini.
As someone who loves the idea of Mind Space (an AI-powered storage shelf, activated 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 within Mind Space to answer questions, help plan things, and automate tasks based on their context – something most AI assistants still struggle with today.
What is Mind Space trying to do?
Mind Space is OnePlus’ way of giving users a home for the things floating around in their heads. Think about tasks, goals, reminders and notes – you can save what you care about and instead of letting it disappear into a forgotten app, your 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 home project, or finally book a city getaway. It could help you research, compose messages, create lists and handle details automatically. That’s the promise. It’s a big change from an AI that reacts to commands to an AI that works from context.
Whether that’s exciting or invasive depends on how much you trust Google and OnePlus with your data. But it’s 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 becomes.
OnePlus’ AI promise
OxygenOS 16 is OnePlus’ next big software push, and the company says it’s trying to take AI beyond novelty.
The software update will debut on the OnePlus 15 and is based on a philosophy that OnePlus calls “Intelligently Yours.” The idea is that the AI adapts to you and not the other way around.
The company says this is meant to make daily life easier, unlock creativity, help you feel more organized, and keep everything secure. All this without slowing down the phone.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because every phone brand now says something similar. But the connection with Gemini is really interesting. Samsung is also leaning on Google, but OnePlus says this is the first time the Gemini connects directly to a personal storage system like Mind Space.
OnePlus’ close collaboration with Google makes sense. It doesn’t have the resources to build its own base model, but the company does know how to make features feel fast and light, something that’s been its identity for a decade.
We’ll have to see how Mind Space and Gemini work together in practice. But this is the most ambitious sign yet that OnePlus wants a place at the table for the next wave of smartphone AI. If you pull it off, your OnePlus could soon feel more like an extension of the brain than a screen.
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