China’s Baidu has expanded its AI business with the integration of the ERNIE foundation model in Samsung’s latest smartphone, the Galaxy S24 Series. In China, Galaxy AI, powered by Baidu’s ERNIE model, will offer functionalities including real-time call translation, summarization, and advanced typesetting, as stated in a Friday press release by Baidu. The new Samsung Galaxy S24 series features Google’s AI model Gemini outside China due to the Great Firewall blocking Google, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and other mainstream sites on the mainland. [TechNode reporting]