Last month at the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2017 in San Francisco, Samsung unveiled Bixby 2.0, the next iteration of its AI-based intelligent assistant platform. The South Korean company introduced Bixby alongside the flagship Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones, and later the Galaxy Note 8 and some smart TVs.
With the digital assistant now having over 10 million registered users in over 200 countries worldwide, Samsung is looking to open the platform to other Samsung and non-Samsung devices with Bixby 2.0. It is expected to compete with the likes of Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant and MicroSoft’s Cortana.
Soon developers will be able to put the service on any devices ranging from mobile phones, TVs, and refrigerators to home speakers and other connected technology. Also, they will be able to choose and model how users interact with Bixby in their services across all application domains.
The Bixby SDK is already available in private beta for select developers and over time, the program will be open to all developers.
Source: Samsung Newsroom
