Samsung aims to expand smartphone AI beyond Google Gemini, as Apple also seeks outside tech
South Korea's largest company aims to give customers more options on its coming Galaxy S26 smartphone line next year, according to Choi Won-Joon, president and chief operating officer of its mobile division. Samsung's current line-up features Alphabet's AI model, like much of the rest of the field of Android devices.
'We are talking to multiple vendors,' 54-year-old Choi said in an interview at Samsung's headquarters in Suwon. 'As long as these AI agents are competitive and can provide the best user experiences, we are open to any AI agent out there.'
Samsung was nearing a deal to invest in Perplexity and integrate its app and assistant, Bloomberg reported in June.
Like arch-rival Apple , the Galaxy phone maker is looking to augment its own efforts at AI with the best available from outside providers.
Beyond AI, the mobiles-to-chips conglomerate is also evaluating new application processors for the Galaxy S26 and considering both Qualcomm products and its in-house Exynos 2600.
For the recently released Galaxy Z Flip 7, Samsung used the Exynos chipset in a foldable for the first time. The company has sought to reduce reliance on Qualcomm and allay doubts about the efficiency and thermal performance of its Exynos line.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
South China Morning Post
3 days ago
- South China Morning Post
Samsung chip arm logs big profit miss in sign of widening crisis
Samsung Electronics' semiconductor division reported profit that fell far short of expectations, reflecting a deepening crisis at the world's largest memory chipmaker. The pivotal unit reported operating profit of 400 billion won (US$288 million) for the June quarter versus analysts' average projection for 2.73 trillion won, hurt by US export controls on high-bandwidth memory chips and losses at its foundry arm. South Korea's largest company, which gave grim preliminary operating profit and revenue numbers earlier in July, said on Thursday net income came to 4.93 trillion won, missing the analysts' estimate of 6.37 trillion won. Profit fell after Samsung's foundry arm, which relies in part on Chinese demand, booked a one-time inventory cost as export controls led to unsold AI chips. Usage rates also fell. The profit decline was despite solid demand for high-end memory products for servers, it said. Operating losses at its foundry unit are expected to narrow in the second half of the year on a gradual recovery in demand, the company said. A man walks past an ad for the Samsung Galaxy S25 series smartphones at a Samsung store in Seoul on July 8, 2025. Photo: AFP Samsung's underwhelming quarterly report comes after the company won a US$16.5 billion contract from Tesla to produce AI chips at an upcoming plant in Taylor, Texas. Its stock is up 10 per cent since news about the agreement broke on Monday, bringing Samsung's gains in July to over 20 per cent and putting the stock on track for its best month in more than four years.
South China Morning Post
4 days ago
- South China Morning Post
Microsoft nears OpenAI agreement for ongoing tech access
Microsoft is in advanced talks to land a deal that could give it ongoing access to critical OpenAI technology, an agreement that would remove a major obstacle to the start-up's efforts to become a for-profit enterprise. The companies have discussed new terms that would let Microsoft use OpenAI's latest models and other technology even if the start-up decides it has reached its goal of building a more powerful form of AI known as artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to two people familiar with the negotiations. Under the current contract, OpenAI attaining AGI is seen as a major milestone at which point Microsoft would lose some rights to OpenAI technology. Negotiators have been meeting regularly, and an agreement could come together in a matter of weeks, according to three people with knowledge of the situation, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter. OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and Satya Nadella, his Microsoft counterpart, discussed the restructuring at the Allen & Co conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, earlier this month, two of the people said. While the tone of the talks has been positive, some of the people cautioned that the deal is not finalised and could hit new roadblocks. Moreover, OpenAI's restructuring plans face other complications, including regulatory scrutiny and a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk, an early backer who split with the company and accused the start-up of defrauding investors about its commitment to its charitable mission. (OpenAI has pushed back at Musk's claims and said the billionaire is trying to slow down the company.) Microsoft signage at its corporate office in Mountain View, California, July 29, 2025. Photo: EPA Negotiations over OpenAI's future as a profit-company have dragged on for months. Microsoft, which backed OpenAI with some US$13.75 billion and has the right to use its intellectual property, is the biggest holdout among the ChatGPT maker's investors, Bloomberg previously reported. At issue is the size of Microsoft's stake in the newly configured company. The talks have since broadened into a renegotiation of their relationship, with the software maker seeking to avoid suddenly losing access to the start-up's technology before the end of the current deal, which expires in 2030.
South China Morning Post
25-07-2025
- South China Morning Post
Samsung aims to expand smartphone AI beyond Google Gemini, as Apple also seeks outside tech
Samsung Electronics is in talks with the likes of OpenAI and Perplexity AI to integrate more artificial intelligence services in coming Galaxy devices, seeking a wider range of offerings beyond Google's Gemini. South Korea's largest company aims to give customers more options on its coming Galaxy S26 smartphone line next year, according to Choi Won-Joon, president and chief operating officer of its mobile division. Samsung's current line-up features Alphabet's AI model, like much of the rest of the field of Android devices. 'We are talking to multiple vendors,' 54-year-old Choi said in an interview at Samsung's headquarters in Suwon. 'As long as these AI agents are competitive and can provide the best user experiences, we are open to any AI agent out there.' Samsung was nearing a deal to invest in Perplexity and integrate its app and assistant, Bloomberg reported in June. Like arch-rival Apple , the Galaxy phone maker is looking to augment its own efforts at AI with the best available from outside providers. Beyond AI, the mobiles-to-chips conglomerate is also evaluating new application processors for the Galaxy S26 and considering both Qualcomm products and its in-house Exynos 2600. For the recently released Galaxy Z Flip 7, Samsung used the Exynos chipset in a foldable for the first time. The company has sought to reduce reliance on Qualcomm and allay doubts about the efficiency and thermal performance of its Exynos line.
