Samsung shared the company’s latest software innovations and vision for the future at the Samsung Developer Conference Korea 2024 (SDC24 Korea) event held on Thursday. In the opening speech, the second generation of the company’s self-developed artificial intelligence model Gauss was introduced and the improved performance, efficiency and various application possibilities of this model were emphasized.
This event, which has been held every year since 2014, aims to interact and collaborate with software developers and was held for the 11th time this year. The event discussed research on software integrated into products such as generative artificial intelligence, software platforms, Internet of Things (IoT), healthcare, communications and data, as well as open source development culture.
“Samsung Electronics is committed to developing cutting-edge software, including artificial intelligence and data analytics, to enhance user experiences,” said Paul Kyungwhoon Cheun, President and CTO of Samsung Electronics’ Device Experience (DX) Division. Consisting of three different models, Samsung Gauss2 currently increases our internal efficiency and we plan to offer a higher level of comfort and personalization by integrating it into our products.” he said.
Samsung Gauss2: A multimodal language model for different needs
Samsung Gauss2 is a continuation of the internal generative AI model that the company introduced last year, increasing its ability to process various types of data simultaneously as a multi-modal model that integrates language, code and images. It offers three different models for different purposes: Compact, Balanced and Supreme.
The Compact model is a small-sized model designed to work efficiently even in limited computing environments, providing optimized performance by using the device’s computing resources at the highest level. The Balanced model, on the other hand, offers consistent performance in various tasks by balancing performance, speed and efficiency. The Supreme model aims for the highest level of performance by adding Mixture of Experts technology to the Balanced model; In this way, it significantly reduces computational costs in training and inference processes while maintaining high performance and efficiency.
Samsung Gauss2 supports 9 to 14 languages and various programming languages depending on the model. Samsung has developed its own stabilization techniques for training large language models (LLM) and designed a custom tokenizer to ensure maximum efficiency for supported languages.
The Balanced and Supreme models outperform existing leading open source generative AI models on key metrics such as their ability to generate and encode responses in a variety of languages, such as English and Korean. Additionally, processing speeds per hour are 1.5 to 3 times faster, enabling faster AI response generation, reduced user wait times, and more efficient handling of tasks.
Having a built-in generative AI model allows for easier customization to achieve optimal performance for specific goals and applications. Samsung Gauss accelerates software development processes by integrating with ‘code.i’, the company’s internal coding assistant that helps software developers. This assistant, updated with Gauss2, is actively used by business units in the DX Department and overseas research institutes.
Since its launch last December, monthly usage of code.i has quadrupled and is used by approximately 60% of software developers in the DX Division. Additionally, Samsung Gauss Portal, powered by Samsung Gauss, offers a conversational AI service that helps employees in the DX Division with a variety of office tasks such as document summarization, translation, and email composing. This service was expanded to non-South Korean subsidiaries in April. Starting from August, Samsung Gauss has been providing support to call center staff in automatically categorizing and summarizing customer calls.
Going forward, Samsung aims to use Gauss2 to increase efficiency within the company, improve the performance of the code.i service, enhance the natural language Q&A function of the Samsung Gauss Portal, and support multi-modal functions such as understanding charts and graphs and rendering. In addition, in line with Samsung’s “Artificial Intelligence for Everyone” vision, it is planned to expand artificial intelligence-based services across all product lines, so that users can have a more comfortable and enjoyable daily life experience. By integrating artificial intelligence and knowledge graph technology, more advanced personalization services are expected to be offered.