Samsung details ‘Galaxy AI’ and a feature that can translate phone calls in real time

Samsung wants to make sure you know that it cares about AI, too. In a new blog post, the company previewed what it calls a “new era of Galaxy AI” coming to its smartphones and detailed an upcoming feature that will use AI to translate phone calls in real time.

“Galaxy AI is an end-to-end mobile AI experience, powered by both on-device AI developed at Samsung and cloud-based AI enabled through our open collaboration with like-minded industry leaders.” Samsung wrote in the post. “It will transform your daily mobile experience with the peace of mind you rely on from Galaxy security and privacy.”

Samsung’s live translation feature, which the company calls “AI Live Translate Call,” will be integrated into the company’s native phone app. Samsung says that “voice and text translations will appear in real-time as you speak” and that the translations will be done on-device.

The company says Galaxy AI is coming “early next year,” so it seems likely that Galaxy AI features will be included in Samsung’s Galaxy S24 smartphone lineup. These phones are rumored to be launching in 2024. The company also reportedly showed off a generative AI model called Gauss at an event this week, which will apparently power the features on mobile devices starting next year, so I take that to mean that Gauss will like that. A major part of the Galaxy S24 lineup, too.

AI-powered features seem to have become the next battleground for smartphone makers. Google, for example, has a bunch of AI-powered tools to help you edit and enhance photos with its Pixel 8 lineup. Apple is said to spend a lot of money every day training AI, and I have to imagine all that investment will show up in some features that work With artificial intelligence for iPhone.

And smartphone makers will soon have to compete with AI-focused hardware products like Humane’s AI Pin-enabled cell phone — though you can get a preview of that device in our exclusive leak published ahead of Thursday’s launch.