Samsung has unveiled a range of innovative AI features for the upcoming Galaxy S24 series, encompassing hardware enhancements and Samsung has unveiled a range of innovative AI features for the upcoming Galaxy S24 series, encompassing hardware enhancements and advancements in artificial intelligence. The Galaxy AI, underpinned by Google’s Gemini Nano large language model, promises to deliver a host of functionalities, as outlined below:
- Chat Assist : Integrated into the Samsung Keyboard app, Chat Assist employs AI to offer diverse functionalities. It includes Chat Translation, allowing users to translate chats across various applications. Additionally, the Writing Style feature assists in expanding, rewriting, and adjusting the tonality of written text.
- Circle to Search: While not exclusive to Samsung, the Galaxy S24 series will be the pioneer in introducing Google’s Circle to Search feature. Users can circle any element on the screen to obtain more information, activated by a long press on the home button or gesture bar.
- Generative Edit and Edit Suggestions: The Samsung Gallery app introduces Generative Edit, an AI-powered editor enabling users to highlight, move, resize, or remove objects within images. Edit Suggestions, accessible through the info button, analyzes photos in the Gallery app, offering editing recommendations for image enhancement.
- Live Translate: This feature utilizes AI to translate phone calls in real-time through OneUI’s default dialer app. Users can activate Live Translate during a call by tapping the ‘Call Assist’ button on the screen.
- Interpreter: Similar to Google Translate, Samsung’s Interpreter facilitates language translation. Users choose two languages, and the screen is split, displaying translated text on one side for the user and the other side for the conversation partner.
- Note Assist: Samsung’s Notes app receives AI treatment with the ‘Note Assist’ feature, which interacts with written content to format text or generate a summary. It also automatically aligns handwritten text.
- Transcript Assist: Comparable to the voice recorder app on Pixel devices, Samsung’s Transcript Assist automatically transcribes recordings into text, identifying speakers. Users can translate the transcription or generate a summary on the device, though real-time transcription is not supported.
Samsung assures that these Galaxy AI features will be free on eligible devices until the end of 2025. Afterward, users may need to pay for certain features provided by third parties, with the possibility of these features extending to previous generation Galaxy S/Z series smartphones.