<span>STORY: Samsung could give Google a major boost in the AI race.</span><span>The South Korean firm’s co-CEO said Monday (January 5) it plans to double the number of its mobile devices with “Galaxy AI” features this year.</span><span>And it will largely be powered by Google’s Gemini.</span><span>Samsung already rolled out Gemini-backed AI features to about 400 million products by last year.</span><span>It now plans to raise that figure to 800 million over the next 12 months.</span><span>The company’s co-CEO T M Roh told Reuters previously Samsung will apply AI to all products and services as quickly as possible.</span><span>Samsung is the world’s largest supporter of Google’s Android mobile platform.</span><span>Its latest plan helps Google in its race with OpenAI and others to attract more consumers to their AI model.</span><span>One leading researcher said Samsung will offer integrated AI services across consumer products to widen its lead over Apple in such features.</span><span>Google launched the latest version of Gemini in November.</span><span>It showed Gemini 3’s led on several popular industry measures of AI model performance.</span><span>Samsung shares ended up 7.5% on Monday.</span><span>Investors bought in as it’s thought the company is due to reveal a profit jump for the fourth quarter later this week.</span>
