Samsung has turned to Chinese tech giant Baidu to help integrate its Ernie chatbot into its Galaxy S24 smartphone, providing users with features such as real-time call translation.
The AI capabilities of the Galaxy S24 phones deployed in China have given way to Google's Gemini in favor of Baidu's Ernie.
A week ago, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S24 series equipped with AI capabilities as the South Korean electronics giant looks to leverage the technology to stay ahead of its competitors.
“The Galaxy S24 series now features Ernie’s comprehension and generation capabilities, where Samsung Assistant translates content and merges long-form content into clear, intelligently structured formats, simplifying comprehensive text organization,” Samsung said.
Samsung's description of the Galaxy S24 series on its Chinese website refers to several features offered by Google, which were first introduced at the launch event in San Jose, California last week.
These versions include Circle to Search, Live Call Translation, Transcription Assistant, and Photo Assistant.
The Chinese product page for the Galaxy S24 does not contain any mention of Google, which has a limited presence in China.
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Baidu said in late December that the number of Ernie users had exceeded 100 million using its chatbot just four months after it went public, competing with Tencent's Hunyuan and Qianwen, chairman of Alibaba's Uni subsidiary.
Ernie is Baidu's answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT, a chatbot that can generate human-like responses based on user input.
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