Tuya Smart Announces Upgraded Hey Tuya and Expanded AI Capabilities for Hardware Innovation, AI Home, AI Robots, and Advances in the AI Energy Ecosystem
shenzhen, china, April 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA, HKEX: 2391), the world’s leading AI cloud platform service provider, today announced the newly upgraded Hey Tuya at the 2026 TUYA Global Developer Summit. Tuya also announced a strategic focus on three core AI application ecosystems: AI Home, AI Robot, and AI Energy.
The summit, which kicked off today, brought together thousands of developers, business representatives, and technology experts from around the world to co-build an AI application ecosystem.
The latest version of Hey Tuya represents a comprehensive evolution from foundational AI capabilities to scenario-based intelligent experiences.
- Expanded third-party services: Hey Tuya is now fully integrated with third-party services such as Google Mail, Calendar, and Docs. Users can issue a single voice command to send an email, schedule a meeting, or process a document, turning AI from a conversational tool to an action-oriented assistant.
- Expanded hardware ecosystem: Hey Tuya has expanded the compatibility of its hardware ecosystem with full support for mainstream open source platforms such as Matter and Home Assistant.
- AI Foundation Enhancements: Hey Tuya’s AI foundation has been comprehensively enhanced to support more natural conversations, deeper reasoning, and complex task planning. Users can speak as naturally as they would speak to a friend, and Hey Tuya interprets their intentions and completes tasks accordingly, evolving from reactive execution to proactive assistance.
- Skills Expansion: Hey Tuya includes a rich and continuously expanding skill library that supports features such as slide generation, image recognition, image creation, and video generation to better meet the scenario-based needs of your users.
- Create conversational apps: Vibecoding allows developers to quickly build integrated AI+IoT+web/mobile solutions. Create complex scenarios, personalized device control dashboards, lightweight lifestyle applications, and AI-driven automation workflows through interactions using only natural language. This significantly lowers the barrier to AI application development and enables a wider range of users to realize their creative visions.
- Scenario-based intelligence: The upgraded Hey Tuya now supports scenario-based intelligence across use cases such as “waking up in the morning,” “health management,” and “protection on the go.” Each scenario is dynamically generated based on user habits, preferences, and real-time conditions.
Tuya expands full-stack AI capabilities for hardware innovation
In addition to debuting a new version of Hey Tuya, Tuya Smart has introduced a suite of homegrown AI-native technologies aimed at real-world hardware deployments.
At the summit, Tuya announced a self-trained Personal Voice Activity Detection (PVAD) model designed specifically for AI hardware scenarios. PVAD allows the device to automatically identify and focus on the desired speaker without prior registration, significantly reducing false activations in complex acoustic environments. This allows AI-powered hardware to more accurately determine who is speaking before executing a command, improving both reliability and user experience.
The company also announced major upgrades and new releases across its AI infrastructure, including Physical AI Foundation V2.8, Wukong AI 3.0, Tuya Real-Time Communication (T-RTC) network, Physical Action Model (PAM), and long-term memory system OmniMem V2.0. Together, these technologies form a comprehensive “toolkit” for developers building next-generation AI applications.
Attendees also got first-hand experience with Tuya’s growing developer ecosystem. Highlights include TuyaClaw and DuckyClaw, as well as Vibecoding, which enables developers to build production-grade applications using natural language, and the enhanced Tuya AI development platform.
Through this integrated suite of technologies and tools, Tuya significantly lowers the barriers to AI development, accelerates innovation, and enables developers around the world to bring AI-powered applications to market.
Tuya focuses on three core AI application ecosystems and co-creates AI with developers around the world
At the summit, Leo Chen, Co-Chairman and President of Tuya Smart, said that decisive AI-driven growth is here, and almost all hardware deserves to be rebuilt with AI. Tuya is fully focused on three frontier application domains: AI Home, AI Robots, and AI Energy, enabling developers to unlock the value of AI and leverage the opportunity to define the next decade with a “Day One” mindset.
- AI Home: Enable intelligent coordination throughout your home and proactive services across devices through AI.
- AI robots: Enhance and extend experiences and application scenarios across five categories: companionship, cleaning, health, protection, and embodied robotics.
- AI Energy: Build AI-driven energy management systems for accurate energy monitoring, efficient utilization, and intelligent optimization.
The 2026 TUYA Global Developer Summit outlines a clear path for AI to move from technology to real-world applications, from business-to-business AI developer platforms to consumer AI applications. Tuya Smart will continue to work with developers and ecosystem partners around the world to push the boundaries of innovation, accelerate AI adoption, and bring AI to every corner of the physical world.
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