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Samsung ’s busy feed its AI ambitions for its consumer equipment . in the beginning this year , the electronics behemoth said it would wreak its Galaxy AI and Google ’s AI model Gemini to its products , includingits flagship smartphone , the Galaxy 24,as well as the latest versions of its two foldable sound — the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 — each of which feature Galaxy AI and Google Gemini conspicuously .
Now , Samsung is adding knowledge graphs to beef up its AI offerings . The Korean tech colossus said on Thursday that it will acquireOxford Semantic Technologies , a U.K.-based knowledge graphical record startup that has built an AI reasoning engine that can be deployed on edge devices , for an unrevealed amount .
Spun out of the University of Oxford , the inauguration was founded in 2017 by prof Ian Horrocks , Boris Motik and Bernardo Cuenca Grau . The ship’s company says its knowledge graph and semantic abstract thought locomotive , RDFox , can process an organization ’s information into machine - readable knowledge that it can then use to provide good user experiences like improved search results and recommendations using rule - based AI .
cognition graphs utilize a graph body structure to organize and represent data on literal - humans entity like people , objects , events , scenarios and concepts , as well as to betoken their kinship . Google , for example , has been using the technology to power its search results , particularly itsknowledge panel .
Oxford Semantic Technologies tell its software helps companies improve datum processing and support advance logical thinking both in the swarm and on edge devices . The inauguration says its applications range from aid in medical diagnosing to desegregate maps for self-governing vehicle rubber , notice financial crime and suggest product constellation .
The acquisition givesSamsungaccess to the startup ’s AI and personal knowledge graphical record engines that , it said in a statement , will permit it add together break up entropy and setting from unlike military service and applications to provide a personalized user experience while keeping data point secured on - gadget . Samsung added that the applied science is applicable not just to mobile devices but all of its products , such as televisions and home appliances .
Samsung is an existing investor in Oxford Semantic via its venture branch , and has been work with the startup on various projects since 2018 . Oxford Science Enterprises is also an investor in the firm .
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“ We are delighted to be working with Samsung , ” said Peter Crocker , CEO of Oxford Semantic Technologies , in a statement . “ By integrating Samsung ’s expertness in user experience and datum with our sophisticated knowledge graphical record and reasoning technology , we will provide Samsung ’s customers with even more sophisticated personalization . In addition , developing RDFox with Samsung , and being part of the larger grouping , will bring home the bacon all of our clients with an even better production , service and support . ”
