The previous couple of years have been a wild experience within the tech world. Particularly as a result of AI turned such an enormous buzzword that everybody desires on that exact bandwagon. Google introduced a number of completely different AI tasks — from Bard to DeepMind to Gemini (it’s all unified beneath the Gemini title now, fortunately), Samsung launched its

With all of those producers and builders throwing AI options at us, most of which cowl the identical floor, it shortly turns into a complicated mess. Which one does what, who has unique options, who does it finest?

Let’s take a step again, take a deep breath, and have a look at all of the presently identified options for Apple’s AI, Google’s Gemini, and Galaxy AI.

We shall be together with the promised options as nicely — since Apple continues to be in the midst of rolling out the whole Apple Intelligence function set. We figured it’s higher to throw them in as nicely, so we are able to have a clearer image of which platform goes for what, even when it’s not fairly there but.

Apple AI – No | Gemini – Sure | Galaxy AI – Sure

Each the Google Pixel and Galaxy telephones provide dwell translation on a name between a number of of the larger languages. It is not flawless, however will be useful in sure situations.

Sensible reply

Apple AI – Sure | Gemini – Sure | Galaxy AI – Partial

The language fashions can fairly precisely interpret what a message you may have acquired is about, after which generate a extra elaborate reply for you. Apple AI and Gemini do that in electronic mail and textual content, Galaxy AI presently solely does if within the Messages app (texts).

Compose and rewrite textual content

Apple AI – Sure | Gemini – Sure | Galaxy AI – Sure

You possibly can have the AI prepare your textual content neatly, compose total paragraphs, or change the tone and elegance of a bit of textual content. Apple’s AI also can name up the assistance of ChatGPT for longer, extra elaborate, essay items. In any case, all three assistants right here cowl this function.

Picture-related AI options

Generate photos

Apple AI – Sure | Gemini – Sure | Galaxy AI – Partial

Apple has its personal Picture Playground, which generates animation-style photos that typically aren’t… very various or usable. However, once more, with ChatGPT baked into iOS 18, you’ll be able to simply ask it to generate extra real looking photos, or ones in numerous types.

It’s value noting that Apple additionally has the brand new “Genmoji”, which can particularly generate emoji-style photos based mostly in your picture prompts. These are… met with lukewarm reception, as they type of defeat the aim of expressing your self with emoji — the enjoyable is of their restricted numbers and attempting to create completely different mixtures and meanings.

Google’s Pixel Studio can also be a bit higher at making photos out of skinny air, but it surely’s nonetheless a bit restricted — particularly, it should refuse to do human figures. Google additionally has the Emoji Lab, which can combine the traits of two emoji into one to create a form of Franken-moji. These are a bit extra enjoyable than Genmoji.

Samsung’s AI can presently generate photos from your individual hand drawings, however doesn’t presently have the function to make them from textual content prompts, nor emoji mills.

Visible search

Apple AI – Sure | Gemini – Sure | Galaxy AI – Sure

Apple AI has the brand new Visible Intelligence function — press and maintain the Digital camera Management button after which you need to use the viewfinder to both ask ChatGPT or Google what you’re looking at. Each Google and Samsung telephones have Gemini with entry to the digicam, which works very similar to Visible Intelligence. There’s additionally Circle to Search, the place you’ll be able to carry out a picture search of something you presently have in your display screen.

Magic eraser

Apple AI – Sure | Gemini – Sure | Galaxy AI – Sure

This has been on Samsung and Google telephones lengthy earlier than it was attributed to AI. Magic Eraser is a “generative eraser” software, that means it should delete any object from a photograph and attempt to generate the lacking background, based mostly on context round it. Apple now has the Clear Up software in Photographs, which does a lot the identical. One can argue that Apple’s software is a little more “AI”, since it should instantly determine and counsel which objects you might want to delete from a photograph.

Auto crop out topic from a photograph

Apple AI – Sure | Gemini – No | Galaxy AI – Sure

Once more, this has been round earlier than the AI craze. Primarily, you’ll be able to faucet and maintain on an object in a photograph, and the software program will “determine” its boundaries and permit it to “raise” it from the picture. Then, drag it to stick into one other app, or generate a replica of that picture with a clear background. It’s a fairly useful gizmo for making YouTube thumbnails, and has been obtainable on iPhone and Galaxies for a few years now.

Pixel unique: Picture Unblur, Reimagine, Add me, Magic Editor

Apple AI – no | Gemini – sure | Galaxy AI – no

Google’s been engaged on image-related tips for some years now. The Picture Unblur function will analyze and take away the blur from any image in Photographs. Even in case you uploaded an previous digicam picture!

Magic Editor permits you to rotate and alter the positioning of a photograph. If you find yourself shifting outdoors the traces of the unique picture, Magic Editor will attempt to generate extra background, based mostly on the picture.

Reimagine can change total topics in a photograph based mostly on a textual content immediate. Like “Make the grass yellow” or “Make the sky cloudy”.

Add me is a cool option to take a bunch image while not having outdoors assist. One individual takes a photograph of the group, then another person steps in and directs the unique photographer to take their spot within the body. The AI will sew image 2 with image 1 to make all the group look as in the event that they have been collectively on the identical time.

A few of these might come to different Android phones by way of a Photographs replace — Unblur is out there, Magic Editor is in testing, and Reimagine may additionally be pushed in some unspecified time in the future. However Add me, for instance, is particularly a Pixel Digital camera function.

Basic AI options

Contextual understanding and multi-layered instructions

Google’s Gemini is the chief right here. The conversational Gemini Dwell mannequin is presently obtainable, and on the whole, Gemini’s capabilities are corresponding to ChatGPT’s. You possibly can have Google’s assistant reply questions from the online, brainstorm or lead a dialog with you, or attain for restricted info inside apps and your account.

Apple’s Siri is supposedly getting a significant overhaul this March, the place it should additionally be capable of comply with conversations but in addition do complicated, multi-layered duties. Like pull info from one app to use it to a question for one more app. In the meanwhile, we do have entry to CharGPT, which is sort of deep and elaborate, straight via Siri.

Bixby is presently lagging behind, however from what we learn about One UI 7, which needs to be launching with the Galaxy S25, Samsung’s assistant needs to be getting rather a lot smarter. Apparently, it will likely be powered by Samsung’s personal LLM mannequin — Gauss — and Google’s Gemini. We’ll see how that pans out, however there are big guarantees for a conversational fashion and multi-app operations.

Unique AI options proper now

Apple Intelligence

Apple put an enormous emphasis on re-doing how notifications are delivered with the assistance of AI. For one, messages which might be extra “essential” shall be mechanically pushed to the highest of your feed. Secondly, AI shall be used to summarize lengthy messages or chat strings, so you will get a greater concept of what’s occurring at a look.

Not less than that’s the final concept. The execution just isn’t fairly there but, with some summaries being fairly imprecise or humorous.

The identical therapy has been utilized to the E mail app, the place a brand new Precedence tab shall be filtered and summarized by AI.

Google Gemini

Google did a few distinctive strikes with its AI implementation. One is the brand new Screenshots app — any screenshots you ever take shall be collected right here, and AI picture recognition will slap a number of tags onto it. So, you’ll be able to simply seek for it later. Like “Cellphone variety of plumbing service” or “Poster of a present with dates on it”.

The opposite distinctive function is in none aside from the Climate app. In the identical spirit as summarizing a protracted article, Gemini offers you a fast recap of the climate forecast on the very prime. Yeah, the extent of usefulness right here is debatable.

Then, we’ve got a slew of different good Google options, which have been launched lengthy in the beginning had “AI” on it, however positively fall beneath the umbrella:

Name screening
Direct my name
Maintain for me
Clear Calling
Reserve with Google

Samsung Galaxy AI

Samsung began off 2024 robust, with a slew of options in Galaxy AI. Nonetheless, by the top of the yr, it’s positively missing in distinctive or distinct options. In fact, this could change in early 2025 — we’ll see if Samsung manages to cook dinner up one thing new and completely different, which the competitors doesn’t but have.