SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will apply its artificial intelligence (AI) voice recognition system, Bixby, to a wider range of home appliances in line with its vision to establish an Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystem for households. Kim Hyun-suk, head of the company’s consumer electronics division, said it is important [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it plans to take a larger slice of the Chinese smartphone market with the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus by focusing on consumers seeking premium models. “Samsung has been growing as a truly localized Chinese company,” Koh Dong-jin, head of Samsung’s IT & [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver has released a new AI-based voice search service that can understand the context behind questions. According to Naver on Friday, the new Clova platform-based voice search service is now available on the web portal’s mobile app. The new voice recognition service is based on CLOud Virtual Assistant (Clova), [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it has acquired a local startup that specializes in artificial intelligence (AI), in an apparent bid to improve its voice recognition system, Bixby. This is the first time that Samsung has acquired a South Korean startup. The size of the deal remains confidential. Established [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will release a Chinese version of its voice recognition program Bixby later this month, setting eyes on Asia’s largest market. It marks the third language to be supported by the artificial intelligence (AI) program along with Korean and English. The official launch is [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc. is expected to emerge as a major player in the field of voice-recognizing artificial intelligence programs through 2022, an industry tracker said Friday, widening the gap with Samsung Electronics Co.’s Bixby. The penetration rate of Samsung Electronics’ Bixby in the field is expected to reach 5.4 percent in 2022, falling sharply from 12.7 percent posted in 2017, Strategy [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Thursday it has partnered with tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector to tap deeper into the burgeoning industry. Kakao I, the company’s AI platform, will be integrated with Samsung’s voice recognition program, Bixby, to allow [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Advanced image recognition technology is reshaping the landscape of information search, a recent report has said. According to the report released by Digieco on trends in the mobile market, image recognition technology is increasingly being adopted by artificial intelligence services such as Google assistant and Samsung’s Bixby. In the [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it has reached an agreement with three local banks to allow users to use banking services via its voice command program, Bixby. The South Korean tech giant said under the project with Shinhan Bank, Woori Bank and KEB Hana Bank, users can ask the [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said it plans to start the full-fledged service of Bixby, an artificial intelligence (AI) program installed in its latest flagship Galaxy S8 smartphones. While Samsung officially released the Galaxy S8 smartphone last month, the Bixby service was still in launch preparations. Through deep-learning technology, Samsung said [...]