Motorola Partners with Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Perplexity on AI Features in New Phones

Motorola today announced its 2025 product lineup, which includes the Motorola Edge 60 series and a new family of Razr flip phones.

“For years, Artificial Intelligence has been central to Motorola’s innovation, enhancing camera, battery, display, and device responsiveness,” the Motorola announcement explains. “But AI continues to evolve. Going beyond device specs, Motorola is shaping Moto AI into a proactive, intuitive companion with the new Motorola Razr and Edge families.”

All the new smartphones look interesting, and each supports four new Moto AI capabilities: Next Move, Playlist Studio, Image Studio and Look and Talk. Motorola says that it is “integrating with top industry leaders like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Perplexity for enhanced assistance, control, and access to powerful tools–boosting productivity, creativity, and everyday convenience.”

Next Move will provide Moto customers with “tailored recommendations based on what’s on their screen,” the company says. “Whether it’s a recipe or travel plans, moto ai provides next step suggestions for them to explore, ideal for beginners and AI enthusiasts alike who want to learn what AI can do for them.”

Playlist Studio uses on-screen content or a prompt to curate music playlists that can be as specific as the user wants. (For example, “Pizza night Y2K jams.”)

Image Studio uses generative AI to create and edit images, avatars, stickers, and wallpapers that customers can use in group chats, social media posts, and elsewhere.

And Look and Talk–which is unique to the new Razr 60 Ultra/Razr Ultra flip phones–is a unique new way to interact with AI by putting the device in stand or tent mode and then get assistance by looking at the screen and speaking. Customers “can use their voice for quick questions and receive audible responses, choose to catch up on missed notifications, or ask Moto AI to transcribe and summarize conversations,” the firm explains.

Interestingly, Moto provides some details about how its partners contributed to the new phones.

Users in the U.S. can use Google Gemini throughout the system in all the expected ways–these are Android phones, after all–and with Razr devices, many of those capabilities work on the outside display; Moto customers get three months of Google One AI Premium.

Catch me up is powered by Meta’s open-source model, Llama, marking the first time it’s been integrated on a smartphone.

Microsoft Copilot is available directly in Moto AI, where users “can ‘Ask Copilot’ and get quick answers, a second opinion, brainstorm ideas or just vent.” Semi-related to this, Motorola is releasing a new Smart Connect app for Android and Windows that will allow users to display content on other screens and mirror their PC or phone display using natural language commands. (Smart Connect is available for Meta Quest as well so users can access “messages, favorite apps and more, right from their headset.”)

But the Perplexity integration is perhaps the most interesting. Motorola is the first phone maker to offer Perplexity’s AI-enhanced search and assistant, in this case integrated into Moto AI, and users will get three months of Perplexity Pro for free. It works with the outside display on Razr phones as well.

“We’re excited to announce our global partnership with Motorola,” a separate Perplexity AI announcement notes. “Starting with the new generation of Motorola devices, Perplexity will be pre-installed on millions of smartphones worldwide, giving Motorola users direct access to our answer engine and assistant.”

The new Motorola phones look pretty interesting. You can find out more about the new Razr phones and the new Motorola Edge 60 series phones separately on the Motorola News site.