The Samsung Galaxy S24 has some top AI features, but the cloud provider behind it may be a bit of a surprise
Samsung’s latest flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S24, has finally been unveiled and we now know it will be packed with artificial intelligence improvements, but these aren’t internal developments.
Instead, Samsung has unveiled a “multi-year” partnership with Google Cloud to bring generative AI to its phones.
Google’s multimodal Gemini Pro model, plus Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, will be deployed on Galaxy S24 devices, putting powerful AI in the hands of thousands of consumers.
Galaxy S24 gets Google’s generative AI
Samsung proudly announced in its announcement that it had become the first Google Cloud partner to deploy Gemini Pro on Vertex AI for consumers. The Gemini family of models was recently announced and poses a major threat to OpenAI’s GPT models.
Being a multimodal model, Gemini can combine text, code, images and video. In case of implementation on Samsung Galaxy S24 devices, it promises to generate summaries for Notes, Voice Recorded and Keyboard.
Janghyun Yoon, Corporate EVP and Head of Software Office of Mobile eXperience Business at Samsung Electronics, said: “After months of rigorous testing and competitive evaluation, the Google Cloud and Samsung teams have worked together to deliver the best Gemini-powered AI experience on Galaxy to deliver. ”
Imagen 2, a text-to-image diffusion technology, will provide consumers with “safe and intuitive” photo editing capabilities and will be built directly into the Galaxy S24’s Gallery app.
Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, said: “With Gemini, Samsung developers can leverage Google Cloud’s world-class infrastructure, advanced performance and flexibility to deliver secure, reliable and engaging generative AI-powered applications on Samsung smartphone devices. to deliver.”
Looking ahead, Samsung’s future appears to be getting a generative AI boost. As part of the partnership, it also became one of the first customers to test Google’s flagship version, Gemini Ultra, which outperforms GPT-4 in many benchmark tests.