At a Samsung event in London last week, executives demoed the company’s new take on AI assistants. The headline news is that Gemini has effectively replaced Bixby as the default Galaxy phone AI, even kicking the latter out of the quick-launch home button.

At its Unpacked event last week, Samsung took the wraps off the Galaxy S25 lineup and spent a majority of the time talking about AI -- a trend in phone announcements these days. Echoing both Google and Apple,

Galaxy AI made its debut on the Galaxy S24 series a year ago, and Samsung has made no secret of its desire to add more features to its AI toolkit. Already, Galaxy flagships support simple-yet-useful features like Circle to Search as well as more complex generative editing capabilities for photos.