Samsung Galaxy S26

What is โ€˜Agentic AIโ€™ and Why Should You Care?

The Next Frontier: From AI Features to Proactive Agents

Something big is cooking at Samsung! ๐Ÿณ In their recent earnings report, Samsung dropped a phrase that has tech geeks buzzing: โ€œAgentic AI.โ€ This isnโ€™t just another marketing buzzword for the upcoming Galaxy S26. It marks a massive shift from โ€œstandalone featuresโ€ (like photo editing or translation) to a โ€œproactive assistantโ€ that actually handles complex tasks for you. Imagine a phone that doesnโ€™t just wait for your command but anticipates your needs!

์‚ผ์„ฑ์ „์ž๊ฐ€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์—์„œ ์•„์ฃผ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๋‹จ์–ด๋ฅผ ๋˜์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ โ€˜์—์ด์ „ํ‹ฑ AI(Agentic AI)โ€™์ธ๋ฐ์š”! ๐Ÿณ ์ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ฐค๋Ÿญ์‹œ S26์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์ง„ ํŽธ์ง‘์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋‹จ๋ฐœ์„ฑ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” โ€˜๋Šฅ๋™์  ๋น„์„œโ€™๋กœ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋ช…๋ น์„ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ํ•„์š”๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ณ  ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์„ ์ƒ์ƒํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!

Samsung Galaxy S26

Why Samsung is Betting on โ€˜Agentic AIโ€™

Letโ€™s keep it real โ€” flagship phone sales are under pressure and component costs are through the roof. ๐Ÿ“‰ โ€œJan Lorbach,โ€ senior director at GfK, points out that consumers donโ€™t buy phones just for โ€œAI featuresโ€ anymore. But an โ€œagentโ€ that manages your travel, shopping, or scheduling? Thatโ€™s a solution to real-world problems! By moving to Agentic AI, Samsung aims to justify premium prices by adding massive software value when hardware innovation is getting tougher.

์†”์งํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ํ˜„์žฌ ํ”Œ๋ž˜๊ทธ์‹ญ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ ํŒ๋งค๋Š” ์••๋ฐ•์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ๊ฐ’์€ ์น˜์†Ÿ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ“‰ ๋…์ผ ์‹œ์žฅ์กฐ์‚ฌ์—…์ฒด GfK์˜ โ€œ์–€ ๋กœ๋ฐ”ํโ€ ์ด์‚ฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ์ด์ œ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ โ€˜AI ๊ธฐ๋Šฅโ€™ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์„ ์‚ฌ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌํ–‰, ์‡ผํ•‘, ์ผ์ • ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” โ€˜์—์ด์ „ํŠธโ€™๋ผ๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ˜„์‹ค์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ง„์งœ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด ํ˜์‹ ์ด ์ ์  ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์ง€๋Š” ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ์‚ผ์„ฑ์€ ์—์ด์ „ํ‹ฑ AI๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋†’์—ฌ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์˜ ์ •๋‹น์„ฑ์„ ์ฆ๋ช…ํ•˜๋ ค ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Battle of the Giants: Samsung vs. Apple

Samsung has a golden opportunity to pull ahead of the pack! ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ While Apple has been moving a bit slowly on the AI front, Samsung is positioning itself to launch Agentic AI first. โ€œNabila Popal,โ€ Research Director at IDC, says this gives Samsung a critical window to โ€œshape the narrativeโ€ of what a next-gen smartphone should be. If they nail the S26 launch, they could redefine the entire industryโ€™s standards.

์‚ผ์„ฑ์ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ž๋“ค์„ ์ œ์น  ์ ˆํ˜ธ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์žก์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ ์• ํ”Œ์ด AI ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์†Œ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ํ–‰๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ด, ์‚ผ์„ฑ์€ ์—์ด์ „ํ‹ฑ AI๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋จผ์ € ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ „๋žต์„ ์„ธ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. IDC์˜ โ€œ๋‚˜๋นŒ๋ผ ํฌํŒ”โ€ ์ด์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์‚ผ์„ฑ์ด ์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์˜ โ€˜๋‹ด๋ก โ€™์„ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•  ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝ S26 ์ถœ์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „์ฒด์˜ ํ‘œ์ค€์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ •์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Samsung Galaxy S26

Current State: Gemini Live and the Evolution of Bixby

Right now, Gemini Live on the Galaxy S25 is already doing some cool multi-app tricks. ๐Ÿช„ It can pull locations from YouTube and save them to your Notes with one prompt. But it still has limits โ€” like not being able to share calendar events. Thatโ€™s where a supercharged Bixby might come in! There are rumors that Samsung is upgrading Bixby with tech like โ€œPerplexityโ€ to handle deep knowledge queries and proactive, on-device actions that Gemini canโ€™t touch.

ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ฐค๋Ÿญ์‹œ S25์˜ โ€˜์ œ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์ด ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒโ€™๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ ์•ฑ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿช„ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ ์˜์ƒ ์† ์žฅ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„ ์‚ผ์„ฑ ๋…ธํŠธ์— ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ €์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์‹์ด์ฃ . ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์บ˜๋ฆฐ๋” ๊ณต์œ ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํ•œ๊ณ„๋Š” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ํ•œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•œ โ€˜๋น…์Šค๋น„โ€™๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ์‚ผ์„ฑ์ด ๋น…์Šค๋น„์— โ€œํผํ”Œ๋ ‰์‹œํ‹ฐโ€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•ด, ์ œ๋ฏธ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฑด๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๋‚ด ๋Šฅ๋™์  ์ž‘์—…๊ณผ ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง€์‹ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์„ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜๋„๋ก ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ถ”์ธก์ด ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Trust and Privacy: The Hardware Edge

For an AI agent to work, it needs to know YOU โ€” which means access to your personal data. ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ This is where โ€œChoi Byung-ho,โ€ a research lead at Korea University, says Samsung has a โ€œstructural edge.โ€ Because Samsung bakes security like โ€œKnoxโ€ into the hardware level, they can credibly promise that your data never leaves the device. Trust is the ultimate differentiator in the age of AI.

AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋‹น์‹ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ž˜ ์•Œ์•„์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ๊ฐœ์ธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์ด์ฃ . ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ ๊ณ ๋ ค๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต AI ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์†Œ์˜ โ€œ์ตœ๋ณ‘ํ˜ธโ€ ๊ต์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ด ์ง€์ ์—์„œ ์‚ผ์„ฑ์ด โ€˜๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์šฐ์œ„โ€™๋ฅผ ์ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ผ์„ฑ์€ โ€œ๋…น์Šค(Knox)โ€์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ณด์•ˆ์„ ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๊ฐ€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค๋Š” ์•ฝ์†์„ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์‹ ๋ขฐ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI ์‹œ๋Œ€์— โ€˜์‹ ๋ขฐโ€™๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™” ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Samsung Galaxy S26

Moving Beyond the Chatbot Burden

Letโ€™s face it: AI features today still require too much work from the user. ๐Ÿ˜ด โ€œChoi Byung-hoโ€ notes that people think AI is impressive but donโ€™t use it daily because the โ€œburdenโ€ is still on us to prompt it. An agent becomes truly valuable when it anticipates routine tasks and handles them quietly in the background. Samsungโ€™s goal is to make the S26 a phone that works for you, so you donโ€™t have to work for it.

์ธ์ •ํ•  ๊ฑด ์ธ์ •ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์˜ AI ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋งŽ์€ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์š”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ˜ด โ€œ์ตœ๋ณ‘ํ˜ธโ€ ๊ต์ˆ˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด AI๋ฅผ ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋งค์ผ ์“ฐ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ด์œ ๊ฐ€, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ช…๋ น(ํ”„๋กฌํ”„ํŠธ)์„ ๋‚ด๋ ค์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜๋ถ€๋‹ดโ€™์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ง„์ • ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋ฃจํ‹ดํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐฑ๊ทธ๋ผ์šด๋“œ์—์„œ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ผ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” S26์„ ๋‹น์‹ ์ด ๊ณต๋“ค์ผ ํ•„์š” ์—†๋Š”, ๋‹น์‹ ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ผํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š” ํฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The Long Game: Scaling Across Form Factors

Even though consumers are still a bit skeptical about AI driving their next upgrade, Samsung is playing the long game. ๐ŸŽฎ With a massive portfolio of devices, from foldables to rings, Samsung can iterate this โ€œagentic experienceโ€ across multiple form factors. As the tech matures, the Galaxy S26 could be the starting point for a whole new way we interact with technology every single day.

์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ์•„์ง AI ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ํฐ์„ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํšŒ์˜์ ์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‚ผ์„ฑ์€ ๋จผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐ŸŽฎ ํด๋”๋ธ”๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฐฉ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•œ ์‚ผ์„ฑ์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ โ€˜์—์ด์ „ํ‹ฑ ๊ฒฝํ—˜โ€™์„ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ์„ฑ์ˆ™ํ•ด์ง์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ๊ฐค๋Ÿญ์‹œ S26์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.