Google brings Gemini Pro, Imagen 2 to Samsung smartphones

Google’s multimodal large language model Gemini Pro, along with generative artificial intelligence-based Imagen tool will be deployed on Samsung smartphones. At its Galaxy Unpacked event on January 17, Samsung Electronics and Google Cloud announced a multi-year partnership to bring latter’s generative AI capabilities to the company’s smartphone users, starting with Samsung Galaxy S24 series. 

We’re thrilled that the Galaxy S24 series is the first smartphone equipped with Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 on Vertex AI,” said Janghyun Yoon, Corporate EVP and Head of Software Office of Mobile eXperience Business at Samsung Electronics. “After months of rigorous testing and competitive evaluation, the Google Cloud and Samsung teams worked together to deliver the best Gemini-powered AI experience on Galaxy.”

Using Google’s Gemini model, starting with Samsung’s native applications, users will be able to summarise across Notes, Voice Recorder, and Keyboard. Further, with Gemini Pro on Vertex AI, Samsung phones will come with enhanced security, safety, privacy, and data compliance, the smartphone company said. With text-to-image tool, Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, Samsung users can leverge intuitive photo-editing capabilities.

Alphabet-owned Google introduced its self-admittedly ‘most capable’ artificial intelligence model Gemini in December. Google has released the first version of the model Gemini 1.0 which comes in three different sizes – Ultra for highly complex tasks; Pro for scaling across a range of tasks; Nano for on-device tasks.

As part of this partnership, Samsung will also be testing Gemini Ultra, Google’s most capable and largest model for highly-complex tasks. The S24 series will also use Gemini Nano, an on-device LLM delivered as part of the Android 14 operating system.

“With Gemini, Samsung’s developers can leverage Google Cloud’s world-class infrastructure, cutting-edge performance, and flexibility to deliver safe, reliable, and engaging generative AI powered applications on Samsung smartphone devices,” said Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud.