Samsung bought an AI-startup to improve Samsung Bixby

 

Bixby is Samsung’s voice assistant. The company actively promotes the technology and does not forget to add help buttons to flagship smartphones. In the future, the functionality of Samsung Bixby will improve. This will help the experience of the start-up Kngine.

Samsung bought 100 percent of the shares of the start-up, Sammobile reports. Thus, the company became the owner of the search engine created by Kngine based on artificial intelligence. He understands the requests and looks for the files or performs the appropriate action.

The engine analyzes the contents of web pages, corporate documents, books and collections of frequently asked questions for a set of biologically plausible knowledge. Thus, the intellect acts according to the example of the human brain.

First, it accepts the request and then splits it into several subqueries and dependencies to create a solution plan. After that, a search is performed inside a voluminous database.

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