Samsung to embed Google’s generative AI tech Gemini Nano in S24 smartphone series

S24 series will use in-built Gemini Nano and entry to Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 text-to-image tech by means of the cloud.

January 17 Samsung will deploy Google’s generative synthetic intelligence expertise in its Galaxy S24 series smartphones that have been unveiled on Wednesday, the businesses mentioned.

Under the multi-year deal, the South Korean agency’s flagship S24 series will use in-built Gemini Nano, Google’s most-efficient large-language mannequin, and get entry to Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 text-to-image tech by means of the cloud.

Samsung Electronics’ flagship smartphones Galaxy S24 series.
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Google is locked in a race with Microsoft to embed GenAI in on a regular basis purposes and gadgets together with smartphones, private computer systems and productiveness software program, as the businesses search new avenues to monetize the instruments.

The market share of GenAI smartphones is probably going to double in 2024 from 4% in 2023, market analysis agency Counterpoint Research mentioned final month.

The Google deal will make Samsung one of many first corporations to check Gemini Ultra, the search engine large’s most succesful and largest large-language mannequin.

Customers can begin utilizing AI-powered summarization and classification options on Samsung’s native purposes comparable to Notes, Voice Recorder and the keyboard.

The Imagen mannequin will even assist customers carry out advanced picture enhancing duties in the Gallery utility of the S24 smartphones, which go on sale round end-January.

Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2023 misplaced market share to Apple and Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi and Transsion, with international shipments falling to 53 million models from practically 60 million a 12 months earlier, in accordance to analytics agency International Data Corporation.