Bixby news and trends

Samsung Could Drop Bixby As Part Of Deal With Google 
Google // July 29, 2020

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. could eliminate Bixby, the virtual voice assistant, and the Galaxy Apps Store from its mobile devices under a deal with Alphabet Inc’s Google, Reuters reported. It is the latest effort by Google to convince Samsung to lose one of its services...

Samsung To Launch ‘Artificial Human’ Called Neon
Artificial Intelligence // December 30, 2019

Samsung disclosed that it will introduce an “artificial human” called Neon at CES 2020 on Jan. 7 that is totally different than its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Bixby, Digital Trends reported. The limited information about Neon was shared on Samsung’s Twitter account, and includes an...

Samsung Pulls The Plug On India AI Shopping App
Mobile Applications // July 02, 2019

Samsung has shut down its India-specific, AI-powered app called Samsung Mall, according to a report. India is a big market for Samsung, and its research and development team is based there. The Samsung Mall app was created to help shoppers find things they wanted to...

Samsung Introduces Bixby Marketplace
Voice Activation // July 01, 2019

Samsung is introducing a marketplace for Bixby, the company’s voice assistant, despite its relatively unknown name when stacked against the likes of Alexa, Siri and Cortana.  The Bixby marketplace will be available in the United States and South Korea, and customers can download several different services...

Interviews & Exclusives
Samsung Pay And PayPal Power In-Store Payments

April 23, 2018
Brick-and-mortar retail has spent the last decade building bridges to the digital world so a new generation of digital consumers can move fluidly between them. What’s been largely left behind, however, is a payments experience that moves just as seamlessly between those worlds. There have been many attempts to bridge the gap, but consumers haven’t […]

The Year In Voice-Activated AI

December 27, 2017
“Alexa?” “Hey, Siri…” “Okay, Google…” “Hi, Bixby…” If we told the average person in early 2013 that someday it was going to be very important to learn the correct way...

Topic TBD: Voice AI Reality Check

May 01, 2017
Voice-activated AI is certainly having its moment in the sun. What was a concept mostly in the realm of science fiction a decade ago, is now widely predicted to be...

Wells Fizzles, Lyft Sizzles And Samsung Snatches A Sizzle From A Fizzle

April 14, 2017
How to construct a payments platypus of sorts — you know, a mish-mosh of opposites that may not on the surface dovetail well but still get put together once in...

Quick Reads
Samsung Plans AI Makeover for Bixby Voice Assistant

April 01, 2024
Samsung reportedly plans to give its voice assistant Bixby a generative artificial intelligence (AI) upgrade. “With the emergence of generative AI and LLM (large language model) technology, I believe that we have to redefine the role of the Bixby, so that Bixby could be equipped with generative AI and become more smarter in the future,” Won-joon Choi, executive vice […]

Samsung Could Drop Bixby As Part Of Deal With Google 

July 29, 2020
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. could eliminate Bixby, the virtual voice assistant, and the Galaxy Apps Store from its mobile devices under a deal with Alphabet Inc’s Google, Reuters reported. It...

Samsung To Launch ‘Artificial Human’ Called Neon

December 30, 2019
Samsung disclosed that it will introduce an “artificial human” called Neon at CES 2020 on Jan. 7 that is totally different than its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Bixby, Digital Trends...

Samsung Pulls The Plug On India AI Shopping App

July 02, 2019
Samsung has shut down its India-specific, AI-powered app called Samsung Mall, according to a report. India is a big market for Samsung, and its research and development team is based...