During an annual shareholder meeting, President and Head of Mobile eXperience (MX) Business at Samsung Electronics TM Roh shared that the company is currently considering rolling out Galaxy AI features on older flagships like the Galaxy S22, and they are currently conducting “a lot of review on the previous model(s).”
He was talking at the 55th annual general shareholder meeting for Samsung Electronics held in South Korea.
TM Roh did point out that some features of the Galaxy AI are on-device and are not dependent on the cloud. Thus, the devices need current flagship hardware to run the Large Language Models (LLM) locally. “Galaxy AI is aiming for ‘hybrid AI’ that combines not only cloud-based AI but also on-device AI technology that is greatly affected by hardware performance,” he explained later.
For older models, it will take time to optimise the models to run on the older chips in the previous generation’s hardware.
The possibility that Galaxy AI is heading to the older flagships is high since the Galaxy S23 FE will be getting it with the next update. The Galaxy S23 FE shares the same SoC with the Galaxy S22/S22+/S22 Ultra, the Exynos 2200. So, if the newer phone gets Galaxy AI using that SoC, we may see S22/S22+/S22 Ultra owners getting AI features too.
Of course, not all the Galaxy AI features will be transplanted to the older S22 series, but with this news, owners can look forward to enjoying some of the AI features in their older devices.
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