Bixby is preparing for a comeback as a worthy Gemini competitor on your Gal

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TL;DR

• Samsung is pumping life into Bixby by sourcing some of the responses from Perplexity AI.
• These upgrades allow Bixby to access real-time information from the web and offer more relevant and detailed responses.
• The upgrade appears to be a part of the One UI 8.5 beta.

Even after years of being outclassed by other rivals, Samsung refuses to give up on its smart assistant, Bixby. Now that all smart assistants are being upgraded with AI, Samsung has similar expectations for Bixby, too. But instead of developing a solution in-house, the tech giant is partnering with an OpenAI rival to execute complex commands given to Bixby, in a similar fashion to how Apple has integrated ChatGPT into Siri.

Samsung has seemingly begun experimenting with Bixby powered by Perplexity AI, a ChatGPT rival that takes a research-first approach, accessing the web and blending other LLMs for responses. This integration was first mentioned last month by a leaker and now appears to be taking form. Based on a screenshot shared by user @achultra on X (via SammyGuru), Bixby appears to be delivering some responses powered by Perplexity.




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