Overview
- Samsung had already rolled Gemini-backed AI features to about 400 million smartphones and tablets by 2025.
- Co-CEO T M Roh said the company will apply AI to all products, functions, and services as quickly as possible.
- Gemini-powered capabilities are extending beyond mobile to consumer electronics, including smart refrigerators.
- The scale-up materially increases distribution for Google’s model as it seeks more consumer users against OpenAI.
- A global memory chip shortage is squeezing smartphone margins, and Samsung signaled that price increases are possible.