Samsung hosted the Galaxy Tech Boards on January 23 in San Jose, California. The panels offered an in-depth exploration of Samsung’s AI improvements and the challenges they deal with throughout 4 key areas — Sustainability, Well being AI, Galaxy AI and House AI. Throughout the Galaxy AI session, consultants examined the potential of AI brokers and their function in shaping the longer term.
Samsung Electronics unveiled the Galaxy S25 sequence at Galaxy Unpacked 2025, marking the start of the subsequent period of cell AI.
To discover the most recent flagship smartphones and the transformative potential of AI brokers, Samsung Newsroom joined the third Galaxy Tech Discussion board session, titled “True AI Companion: Influence on Life and What’s Subsequent.”

▲ (From left to proper) Bob O’Donnell, Sameer Samat, Jay Kim, Christopher Patrick and Dr. Chris Brauer
Extra Pure, Intuitive and Person-Pleasant Cellular AI
The session kicked off with welcome remarks from Jay Kim, Govt Vice President and Head of Buyer Expertise Workplace, Cellular eXperience Enterprise at Samsung Electronics.
“Yesterday was a really thrilling day for us as we launched the Galaxy S25. It’s one other massive step ahead within the AI period,” Kim stated. “We’re very excited to be right here with our companions right now, particularly (excited) to speak about all the pieces we did collectively to launch the Galaxy S25 sequence.”

▲ Jay Kim from Samsung Electronics
Moderator Bob O’Donnell, President and Founding father of TECHnalysis Analysis, posed inquiries to the panelists about the advantages the Galaxy S25 sequence will carry to customers, in addition to the obstacles blocking sure shoppers from utilizing cell AI.
“AI ought to make customers’ lives higher. We examine client habits, always attempting to realize a greater understanding of our clients,” Kim stated. “Finally, what we’re attempting to do is reduce how a lot effort it takes to enter whereas maximizing the output. To try this, we have a look at what shoppers do on their telephones, outline the potential use circumstances alongside our companions, and put all of it collectively in our gadgets for the very best client expertise.”

▲The Galaxy Tech Discussion board dialogue on Galaxy AI
“Multimodality can assist folks turn into extra environment friendly whereas AI brokers can assist folks turn into extra productive,” Kim continued. He additionally highlighted Samsung’s dedication to overtly collaborating with its companions to drive progress ahead and expressed his pleasure for the probabilities AI improvements will carry as a part of a brand new chapter in cell expertise.
Increasing the Galaxy AI Ecosystem By Open Collaboration
Throughout the session, Samsung supplied an inside have a look at the work completed in partnership with Google and Qualcomm to good the Galaxy S25 sequence’ AI improvements.
“Regardless that the profit worth of cell AI is de facto excessive, it’s of no use should you can’t entry it. We had to have a look at what was already a part of the patron expertise and ponder how we may improve these experiences in a method that will carry actual advantages, however nonetheless be simple sufficient to entry,” Kim defined. He famous that shut collaboration was important, significantly in integrating Google’s Gemini intelligence and Qualcomm’s on-device processing capabilities.

▲ Sameer Samat from Google
“Really useful AI should match naturally into our each day lives. AI is a software and never an finish in itself, and what issues to shoppers probably the most is how useful AI might be for them,” stated Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem at Google. “LLMs symbolize a large leap in how computer systems perceive human language. Now, you may converse in fully pure language, eradicating any friction from the general expertise.”
“With Galaxy S25, I’m optimistic that individuals will shortly adapt to utilizing an AI agent to assist them get issues completed in very pure methods.”

▲ Christopher Patrick from Qualcomm
Key drivers of multimodal AI capabilities, like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, had been additionally highlighted, showcasing expertise that concurrently processes a number of types of data, together with voice, photos and textual content.
“The Galaxy S25 sequence goes to be a totally new expertise. You’ll be capable of interact together with your personalised AI assistant like by no means earlier than; it doesn’t simply really feel like interacting with an actual particular person, it perceives your atmosphere and may work together with content material proven in your digital camera,” stated Christopher Patrick, Senior Vice President and Normal Supervisor for Cellular Handsets at Qualcomm. “Our collaboration with Samsung to customise the chipset to make these new capabilities really feel seamless is one thing I’m actually happy with.”
Breaking Obstacles: Cellular AI’s Position in Enhancing High quality of Life
Throughout the session, Samsung additionally introduced the findings of a worldwide examine performed in partnership with London-based analysis agency, Symmetry, that examined the hyperlink between cell AI use and high quality of life. The audio system delved into the examine’s key implications and supplied priceless insights.

▲ Dr. Chris Brauer from Goldsmiths, College of London, and Symmetry
“The speed of AI innovation is astounding, however what struck me concerning the analysis we did with Samsung was that the speed of cell AI adoption can also be rising at a fast charge,” stated Dr. Chris Brauer, Director of Innovation within the Institute of Administration Research at Goldsmiths, College of London, and Chief Innovation Officer at Symmetry. “Frequent client use of cell AI globally has practically doubled in simply six months, leaping from 16% in July to 27% in January.” Dr. Brauer additionally outlined key findings regarding sure obstacles to entry the analysis discovered round cell AI.
“We discovered a very attention-grabbing theme amongst these much less prepared to undertake the expertise: doubt,” Dr. Brauer stated. “Doubt in AI’s capacity to carry significant advantages to on a regular basis life (56%), doubt and a scarcity of excessive confidence to make use of AI to its full potential (85%) and doubt round privateness and whether or not AI might be trusted (90%). There’s immense potential with this expertise, however what’s additionally clear are the very actual obstacles that should be addressed responsibly for wider adoption to happen.”

▲ The Galaxy AI dialogue session on the Galaxy Tech Boards
The Galaxy AI session concluded with the panelists agreeing that cell AI innovation is ready to revolutionize each side of contemporary life. As representatives of the fast-moving trade, additionally they vowed to develop associated applied sciences in a accountable method useful to all of humanity.