Samsung Smart Speaker Will Have Better AI Than Google Assistant, Amazon's Alexa

With Harman International by its side, Samsung is preparing to enter the smart speaker market by creating a device that's sporting a more advanced artificial intelligence technology. The smart speaker Samsung is launching could even be running on an AI platform that's better than Amazon's Alexa and Google's Google Assistant. Last Friday, Harman International CEO Dinesh Paliwal spoke with The Korea Herald after a private meeting with Samsung Electronics President and CEO Yoon Boo-keun and other distributors and business partners. Though the half-hour meeting was a closed-door event, Paliwal divulged to the publication that among the topics they discussed at the gathering was the ongoing collaboration between the two companies as they work on Samsung's smart speaker. Paliwal also admitted that the two firms will be doing extensive research and development for the AI device.