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Highlights
- Samsung Companion to AI Living introduces a unified AI ecosystem connecting TVs, appliances, health, and services
- Vision AI Companion transforms TVs into interactive hubs with personalized viewing, sound, and long-term Tizen OS support
- SmartThings-powered AI appliances and wearables enable proactive home automation, health monitoring, and secure data management
A Unified AI Ecosystem for Everyday Life
At CES 2026, tech mammoth Samsung Electronics unveiled its new vision, “Companion to AI Living,” outlining how artificial intelligence will evolve beyond a mere feature to become an everyday partner across machines. These revolutionary features were unveiled during Samsung’s first-look event in Las Vegas. The company mapped out this impressive strategy to position AI as the primary foundation connecting Samsung’s products, services, and user experiences.
TM Roh, CEO and Head of Samsung’s Device Experience (DX) Division, accentuated that Samsung’s core capability lies in its massive ecosystem. By weaving AI across mobile devices, TVs, home appliances, and services, Samsung aims to deliver more stupendous, meaningful interactions throughout daily life.
Entertainment Companion: Vision AI That Transforms the TV experience
Samsung’s display and TV lineup steal the spotlight in its AI vision. The company revealed its 130-inch Micro RGB TV, featuring historically unique color accuracy and picture quality enabled by the new Micro RGB AI Engine Pro, which uses microscopic RGB light sources.
Anchoring Samsung’s 2026 TVs is the Vision AI Companion (VAC), an AI system that transmutes TVs into interactive entertainment hubs. VAC helps users weigh and select what to watch, recommends meals inspired by on-screen content, and even suggests music that matches the mood.
Voice commands let the user seamlessly control Samsung’s TV range, from OLED and Neo QLED to UHD models.
Personalized Viewing and Immersive Sound
One of the nuanced AI-powered features, such as AI Soccer Mode Pro, elevates sports viewing with stadium-like visuals and audio, which bring the reality home.
With SmartThings now serving over 430 million users globally, the platform is becoming the backbone of Samsung’s connected home strategy.
Smarter Appliances with Real Intelligence
- AI Soccer Mode Pro enhances sports broadcasts so that, if you close your eyes, you can feel like you’re in the stadium.
- At the same time, AI Sound Controller Pro lets users adjust crowd noise, commentary, or background music individually.
- Samsung also introduced new WiFi speakers and an ultra-thin OLED TV designed to fit into modern living spaces.
The company confirmed seven years of Tizen OS updates for its TVs, assuring long-term software evolution, along with robust support for HDR10+ Advanced and its new immersive audio technology, Eclipsa Audio.
Home Companion: AI That Simplifies Daily Chores
Samsung can be recognized as one of the few tech firms to successfully bring AI-powered technologies into home appliances, a remarkable achievement. Now, with smart appliances that are truly intelligent, Samsung’s home appliances are shifting into proactive assistants. With SmartThings now serving over 430 million users, the ecosystem opens the door for deeper personalization and automation.
Smarter Appliances with Real Intelligence
- The Family Hub refrigerator, enhanced with AI Vision equipped with Google Gemini, can now unerringly recognize food items, track usage, and simplify meal planning.
- Features like “What’s for Today?”, Video to Recipe, and FoodNote take the stress out of deciding what to cook and when to restock.
This doesn’t seem to stop here, as Samsung clearly has a plan to redefine the entire home appliance landscape.
In the laundry room, the Bespoke AI Laundry Combo eliminates the need to transfer clothes between machines, while the AI AirDresser harnesses steam and air to remove wrinkles effortlessly.
Samsung also introduced its exceptional AI Jet Bot Steam Ultra, a robot vacuum that can detect liquids, monitor pets, and respond to conversational voice commands.
These AI-powered features, integrated into Samsung’s SmartThings-enabled home appliances, could be a truly revolutionary initiative. While the company has introduced similar innovations before, evolving them to enhance ease of use is a remarkable achievement.
Care Companion: Proactive Health and Well-Being
Samsung’s long-term care vision aims to bring on proactive health management. By implementing smartphones, wearables, and home devices, AI can provide tailored coaching for sleep, exercise, and nutrition. If intermittent health patterns are registered on the map, users can typically access the data generated in the system and securely share it with healthcare providers via the Xealth platform.
Samsung is also broadening its research into early dementia detection, using wearables to identify subtle changes in movement and behavior.
Security and Privacy at the Core
All AI-driven experiences are protected by Samsung Knox and Knox Matrix, ensuring data privacy and security as AI models evolve.
Final Thoughts
With Companion to AI Living, Samsung is signaling a shift from smart devices to AI-powered life companions. While many features will roll out gradually, Samsung’s CES 2026 vision makes one thing clear: the future of AI is not about replacing humans but about supporting everyday life with intelligence that feels natural, secure, and personalized.
