Samsung has a totally killer plan for Bixby, and ultimately, you won’t be required to use apps on Galaxy devices. Bixby has been upgraded with LLM and the integration of Perplexity’s AI capabilities is a solid move.

On March 31, Samsung relaunched Bixby not as a smarter voice assistant but as what it calls a “device agent.” A voice assistant waits for commands, while an agent understands what you actually want and figures out how to get there

Jisun Park, Corporate Executive Vice President and Head of Language AI at Samsung’s Mobile eXperience division, laid out what that looks like in practice.

The new architecture puts an LLM at the core, which means Bixby now interprets intent rather than matching commands. Samsung rebuilt individual device functions as callable agents, each defined in a way the LLM can invoke on the fly.

Ask the new Samsung Bixby service to make your screen visible only to you and it activates Privacy Display. Tell it your eyes are tired and it recommends and switches on Eye Comfort Shield, right there in the conversation.

Bixby supports multiple languages, but Korean is structurally brutal for language models. Park said they surpassed their original Korean performance targets by a significant margin.

Samsung’s Bixby is already available across Samsung’s broader device lineup. You can tell your robot vacuum to start cleaning while you’re across town. You can flip on the air conditioning before you get home.

The phone becomes a control surface for the entire household. That’s the actual play here: a single conversational layer across every Samsung device you own.

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