Google is paying ‘enormous sums’ to Samsung to pre-install Gemini on Galaxy 25. It could end up costing Google big timeGoogle is paying ‘enormous sums’ to Samsung to pre-install Gemini on Galaxy 25. It could end up costing Google big time
Google pays Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ of money to pre-install Gemini AI tools on its Galaxy smartphones, an antitrust court in the United States has heard.
As part of an antitrust case that could see Google as we know it forced to break up, Google revealed the payments to Samsung had begun in January this year – around the time of the Galaxy S25 phones (via Bloomberg).
The best Samsung phones have Gemini AI as a built-in app and even a dedicated hardware button that launches Gemini directly. That effectively gives Google’s app top AI billing on Samsung’s phones over its own tools.
