Samsung's presentations at the annual CES typically focus on its ever-expanding portfolio of home devices. And, this year was no exception, barring an usually high, if expected, focus on all things AI-related.
This time around, the South Korean behemoth tried to wow the audience of its 'First Look' event with a planned Samsung Health revamp and the upcoming induction of AI in all Samsung "products, functions, and services," along with a host of announcements related to the world's brightest QD-OLED TV, a 130-Inch Micro RGB TV, and new gaming QLEDs.
Samsung Health: Intelligent Care
Despite expectations of announcements related to the upcoming Galaxy S26 series, the US launch of the Galaxy Z TriFold, and anticipation of juicy tidbits related to the Galaxy Ring 2, Samsung chose to focus on the Health app as the only major mobile-related announcement during its 'First Look' event at this year's CES.
Akin to what Apple intends to do with its own Health App, Samsung appears to be pivoting away from reactive care to a proactive one, courtesy of what it calls Intelligent Care, which embodies personalized health coaching on sleep, active lifestyle, nutrition, and mental health, with data inputs aggregated from a range of Samsung devices.
Samsung's Intelligent Care will leverage AI to create personalized exercise plans and provide insights and guidance on improving sleep and eating a balanced diet.
As an example of this revamp's potential, Samsung says Intelligent Care will soon be able to provide users with personalized meal plans and recipes, based on the blood glucose level and other health-related metrics, as well as the contents of a given user's connected fridge.
The South Korean behemoth also intends to equip Samsung Health with the ability to monitor the cognitive decline in elderly users in real-time.
Galaxy AI to expand to 800 million global devices in 2026
Samsung’s CEO and head of device experiences, TM Roh, declared at the event that the number of Samsung devices with Galaxy AI onboard will double in 2026 to 800 million units.
He went on to note:
"We will harness the full scale of Samsung to create technologies and experiences that truly matter to people. We will embed AI across every category, and every product, and every service to deliver one seamless unified AI experience."
Basically, Samsung wants to embed AI across its range of smartphones, TVs, washing machines, speakers, and other home appliances, creating an ecosystem of home devices that seamlessly communicate with each other, creating tremendous value in the process.
Separately, it appears Samsung intends to power its bespoke voice assistant Bixby with an LLM from Perplexity AI, akin to what Apple intends to do with its Siri by leveraging Google's bespoke 1.2-trillion-parameter AI model.
Should this materialize, you would soon be able to perform a variety of AI-based actions using the "Hey Plex" voice command. While this functionality will be available on all Android phones, there are hints that Samsung is further optimizing the feature for its Galaxy devices.
Samsung's home devices
According to Samsung, its SmartThings platform now sports 430 million users across the globe, up from 350 million users in September 2024.
The South Korean behemoth has also unveiled a brand new robot assistant, replete with an oval, 13.4-inch OLED screen. The assistant is designed to provide scheduling guidance to students.
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