One of the most anticipated IPOs of the year risks not happening at all plus what's an AI phone?

It is Wednesday January 17th. Welcome to the Tech Check podcast. I'm Deere Jibosa with Mark Gilbert. Hello Gilbert.

Good morning, Dee. A few topics today, but I think we should start with Samsung. It is probably the newsiest thing that happened today.

It happened in just the last hour or two.

Out with a new suite of phones.

And we don't always talk about these Samsung launch events,

but this one, they're talking about a whole new suite of AI features some people are

calling it the first AI phone Samsung calling it quote a comprehensive mobile

AI experience what do you think, Dee?

Right. So it was a little bit underwhelming because a lot of the features are not all that

new or revolutionary, especially if you've been playing around with chat gee

and Bard and all of these different large language model

applications.

But Samsung calls its blend Galaxy AI.

That's sort of its umbrella term.

I just watched the presentation online

where it released phones and all the new features,

etc.

But I would maybe sum up that sort of AI experience

that's on the phone now into five main categories.

Search, there's language translation, message composition and note creation,

and then photo editing and processing.

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