Remember when Samsung banned its own staffers form using generative AI over fears of leaks, and reports of the South Korean tech giant creating its own? It looks like the company has done it, and will be sharing the fruits of its labour to the public over the coming few months. The brand is also naming its own generative AI as Samsung Gauss, after famed German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
The revelation came as part of the Samsung AI Forum at the company’s R&D centre in Seoul. Developed by its Research arm, Samsung Gauss consists fo three sub-models, which come with the Language, Code and Image suffixes. Pretty self explanatory as to what each sub-model does. What separates Samsung Gauss from its contemporaries though is that, rather than requiring cloud connectivity, Gauss can operate on-device.
While it is currently being used internally “on employee productivity”, the company plans to expand its uses to a range of its own products. We’ve already seen reports of the brand’s home appliances potentially getting generative AI. And according to The Korea Times, “industry experts expect them to debut as early as the first half of next year, potentially in flagship smartphones like the Galaxy S24 series”. Those running the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 would definitely be able to handle it, if nothing else.
While there being another generative AI alternative is nice, it remains to be seen if it will be widely adopted. After all, Samsung pushed hard for its Bixby virtual assistant, and it ultimately got nowhere in the face of Google’s mainstay equivalent. For now, it’s way too early to tell if Samsung Gauss will share the same fate.
(Source: Samsung, The Korea Times)
