Samsung's AI ambitions have taken a big step forward as the company unveiled the Gauss 2 AI model at this year's Samsung Developer Conference. Gauss 2 builds on its predecessor and offers improved performance and efficiency, with applications spanning smartphones, tablets, laptops and home appliances.
Your Samsung Galaxy S24 FE may not use it for its AI features, but the device you buy in a few years could use Gauss 2 to help it, including rumored automatic adjustments that make the Settings menu obsolete.
Gauss 2 is multimodal, so AI can simultaneously process images, text, and computer code. That makes it better at incorporating AI-powered features into devices. In fact, there are three versions of the new model, which differ in size and capabilities: Compact, Balanced and Supreme.
The Compact model is designed to work on a device without Internet. In contrast, the Balanced model sometimes needs online resources to process data, but it is still supposed to be fast and efficient. Finally, the Supreme version of the model incorporates resources and algorithm variations as needed to deliver the best performance.
Depending on the version, Samsung says the Gauss 2 can communicate in up to 14 languages and between 1.5 and three times faster than its previous version.
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“Samsung Electronics is committed to developing cutting-edge software, including artificial intelligence and data analytics, to improve user experiences,” said the president and chief technology officer of Samsung's Device eXperience (DX) division and Samsung research chief Paul Kyungwhoon Cheun. “With three different models, Samsung Gauss2 is already boosting our internal productivity and we plan to integrate it into products to offer greater levels of convenience and personalization.”
Samsung said it has already implemented Gauss 2 internally. More than 60% of developers in Samsung's DX division use Gauss 2 to help them encode or translate text, write emails, and summarize documents. AI is also used in call centers to categorize and summarize customer interactions.
You might not see Gauss 2 doing anything spectacular right away on your devices, even when it's added to future models. But it will be key to popular features like real-time translation, suggestions for music or movies you might like, and ways to edit your photos.
