Samsung has officially announced a new version of Bibxy, describing the voice assistant as a conversational AI agent. The updated assistant is now available to users enrolled in the One UI 8.5 Beta program, and it can perform more natural interactions and provide real-time web intelligence on supported Galaxy devices.
The new Bixby, as per Samsung, works more like a chat-based AI system than a traditional command-driven assistant. Samsung’s integration with Perplexity allows users to ask open-ended questions and receive real-time information from the Web. The result gets displayed directly on the Bixby interface, removing the extra step of navigating to a different browser or application. For example, a search for family-friendly hotels in Seoul will help you get results within the assistant itself.
Samsung has also redesigned the interface to look like modern AI chat platforms, with conversation history displayed in a threaded format on the side panel. This will allow the users to revisit previous queries and continue discussions more seamlessly, similar to the experience provided by other gen AI tools.
The company also claims that the assistant now uses natural language to control devices, along with doing web searches. The users can describe what they want without having to navigate menus or remember specific feature names. The assistant will understand a request to prevent the display from dimming while watching content and automatically activate the relevant setting.
In a few markets, including India, Germany, Korea, Poland, the UK, and the US, beta users can now access the updated Bixby. In the upcoming months, Samsung intends to release One UI 8.5 more widely in tandem with its stable rollout.