Tuya Hey Tuya AI life assistant brings physical AI home

Tuya’s Hey Tuya is another sign that physical AI—agents that control fleets of devices in the real world—is moving from concept decks into mainstream products. While this isn’t a new frontier model, it operationalizes multi‑agent orchestration, memory and multimodal perception across a huge installed base of IoT hardware. That matters because AGI won’t live only in browsers; it will eventually need to sense, act and learn continuously in physical environments.

Strategically, Tuya is turning its global smart‑home platform into an AI agent runtime, complete with long‑term memory, multi‑device coordination and domain‑specific roles (from energy optimizer to health coach).([bastillepost.com](https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/5482618-tuya-smart-launches-hey-tuya-a-super-ai-life-assistant-bringing-physical-ai-to-everyday-life)) That puts it in a different lane from pure model labs: it’s a distribution and embodiment play that could give Tuya meaningful data and behavioral feedback loops at scale. For the broader race, this underscores how Chinese AI vendors are pushing hard into "agent plus hardware" ecosystems, complementing the model‑centric strategies of U.S. and European players.

For competitors, Hey Tuya raises the bar on what an “assistant” means in the home: not just answering questions, but autonomously sequencing actions across many devices. That will pressure other smart‑home and cloud players to deepen their agent frameworks and to think more seriously about safety, reliability and user control when AI is literally flipping switches and managing real‑world systems.