- The Galaxy S25 series is the first to get many new Galaxy AI features.
- Samsung is currently “evaluating what features” might come to other Galaxy devices.
- Historically, Galaxy AI features have arrived in short order on older devices.
Samsung finally made the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra official at its first Galaxy Unpacked event in 2025, and along with the new hardware, a number of new features for Galaxy AI were revealed.
While the Samsung Galaxy S25 pre-order offer is impressive, you might be reading this very news story about a Galaxy S24 Ultra, Galaxy Z Flip 6 or even a Galaxy Z Fold 6 and thinking that these are still pretty new phones – and wondering if some of these new features may come to your device in a future update. Well, we already know that One UI 7 with call transcriptions will arrive on the S24 series.
As for other AI-powered features such as Samsung’s Personal Data Engine, Now Brief, and improvements to generative imaging features, it’s not yet clear which devices these features may eventually land on.
The Personal Data Engine is basically a dedicated core on the device for handling AI tasks and building a personal large language model (LLM) for the phone owner, to help the AI make better suggestions and implement them. Now Brief is an app that changes throughout the day to show relevant information.
Speaking to TechRadar, a Samsung spokesperson told us that the company is “evaluating which features” might come to which devices.
In full, Samsung states, “Nothing to share right now, but Samsung is committed to providing the best possible Galaxy experience for all our users, and we’re evaluating which features will be available on which devices.”
It’s clear that the focus is on the S25 series, and it seems that many of these new Galaxy AI features were tailored for the new series thanks to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite for the Galaxy chip, which has a specific processing unit dedicated for AI tasks. The processor is paired with 12GB of RAM across the range – no more 8GB for the ‘standard’ model.
Samsung is really aiming to integrate Galaxy AI throughout the phone so it can learn how you use it and the other apps on it. Ideally, the Now Brief app will work with Galaxy AI at its core, and in the dedicated part of the processor act as a personal LLM to give you the right suggestions and cards. It could be that you’re having a busy day with a look at your calendar, a reminder that it’s someone’s birthday and creating a digital card, or even a suggestion about your commute home. In a demo, I also saw weather maps and even news stories that might interest you, but as with most AI features, it will take some time for these features to learn your habits and routines.
The Galaxy S25 series follows the idea of ’agentic AI’ that we’ve heard about and that we’ll likely see more of in 2025. It remains to be seen how much of this depends on the new processor or whether Samsung can find out of a way to trickle this down further.
Still, the ability to ask Gemini to complete chain requests — for example, asking when the next New York Jets game is, adding it to your calendar, and sharing the invite with a friend — looks like it could arrive on other devices, and should be easy to roll out to them with Gemini – Google has even confirmed that. Integrating Gemini with, say, Samsung Notes and other third-party apps is likely to take a bit longer, but could likely be introduced via an update.
The same thought process could apply to the improvements to generating images and improvements to Samsung’s native tool to remove people from the background of images that were revealed for the Galaxy S25 family. Samsung has a good track record of rolling out its AI features to older phones so far, so we’re crossing our fingers and hoping some of these new Galaxy AI features trickle down.
