By MacKenzie Sigalos
Publication Date: 2026-02-25 18:00:00
The Gemini AI assistant on a Samsung 26S Ultra smartphone during a product preview event in San Francisco, California, USA, on Monday, February 23, 2026.
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Samsung On Wednesday, the company unveiled the Galaxy S26 series, its latest flagship smartphone lineup alphabetGemini’s artificial intelligence takes center stage.
It gives the search giant’s AI technology a major mobile base just before it’s expected to power a revamped Siri Apple‘s iPhones.
The S26 stands out for the sheer number of AI systems packed into a single device.
Samsung brings together three separate AI engines: Google’s Gemini for agent tasks like booking rides and acting across apps, Perplexity for web-based queries, and an updated version of Samsung’s own Bixby as an on-device assistant powered by a more powerful in-house large language model.
It’s a multi-agent approach that shows how central the AI arms race has become to smartphone sales – and how…