Samsung Upgrades Bixby With Perplexity-Powered AI Features, Takes Page Out of Apple’s Playbook
Samsung will soon start rolling out the Android 16-based One UI 8.5 update with the AI-powered Bixby assistant to eligible Galaxy devices in select markets. The upgraded version of Bixby will be capable of executing commands and answering natural language user queries. It will also leverage Perplexity's real-time web searching functionality to display results within the Bixby user interface, without redirecting users to an external web browser. This comes soon after Apple and Google announced in a joint statement that Google will provide Gemini models for Apple's next-generation foundation models.
