Samsung buys another AI company as it continues to build out Bixby

It’s genuine that Bixby didn’t have essentially the most auspicious of debuts when it rolled out on the Galaxy S8 prior this year, however Samsung’s obviously bought big plans for its smart assistant. Late closing 12 months, the company picked up Viv, the brand new assistant from the individuals behind Siri — an acquisition that happened too late to have a massive have an effect on on Bixby forward of unlock. The customer electronics massive is at it once again, opting for up fellow South Korean company, Fluenty — information first mentioned with the aid of The Korea Herald.

The startup’s app of the equal name launched right here in the U.S. back in 2015, providing automatic textual content replies for SMS and third-celebration social services like facebook Messenger and Telegram. It’s form of a canned chatbot that makes use of AI to imply the surest conversational response. It’s not too varied from points already provided up on some of these functions, though it’s effortless to see how something like a Bixby could benefit from the acquisition.

in spite of everything, huge contemporary pushes from the likes of Apple and Google locate the competitors working to make their assistants whatever greater than simply voice-most effective. As anyone who’s ever attempted to use Siri or Assistant in a too loud or too quiet ambiance will tell you, every so often text is only more suitable.

And while Samsung hasn’t provided a great deal insight into the acquisition to this point, it follows that Fluenty can be an excellent in shape for Bixby. in any case, the assistant really launched without voice functionality right here in the States (that rolled out a number of months later). definitely herbal textual content language gaining knowledge of might comfortably locate a place beneath the Bixby umbrella — besides the fact that it’s anything so simple as conserving its present text-based performance.

speaking of which, Fluenty’s app at present seems to be gone from the Google Play store, which could suggest the carrier’s days as a standalone are at an conclusion. 

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