Samsung’s new phones replace Google AI with Baidu in China
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#6J5AZ)
Samsung's S24 Ultra as announced in the US earlier this month. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Samsung's Galaxy S24 lineup has launched in China, and the company is tapping Chinese tech giant Baidu to power its Galaxy AI features, CNBC reports. There's no mention of Google, whose Gemini foundational models are powering Samsung's Galaxy AI features in Western markets. Instead, the Chinese launch focused on Baidu's Ernie, the chatbot that launched last August.
The list of AI translation, summarization, and text formatting features on the Chinese version of the Galaxy S24 will be familiar to anyone who kept up with its US-based launch. There's also real-time call translation like we saw earlier this month, and the phones are even getting a version of Google's Circle to Search feature.
Now featuring Ernie's understanding and...