Alas, you don’t get to choose which variant your region gets.<\/b>
\nThe Exynos-powered Galaxy S26 might feature better on-device AI with native image generation capabilities.
Samsung is reportedly collaborating with another company to bring a lightweight version of Stable Diffusion for on-device image generation.
The feature is expected to be called EdgeFusion and could generate 512-pixel images in \u201ca few seconds.\u201d
AI has now mutated into an integral part of our devices. But brands still use a hybrid AI arrangement, where only part of the processing occurs locally, with most of the lifting done by AI models in cloud infrastructure. On-device AI on phones, for instance, has largely been limited to processing text, while richer media, such as images, are processed online. As expected, the latter approach raises privacy concerns, but Samsung could take a step toward addressing them by bringing on-device image generation to the upcoming Galaxy S26.
The report also notes that Samsung plans to accelerate on-device media generation in \u201ccollaboration across a wide range of global tech giants,\u201d but without specifying which ones.
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EdgeFusion is a specialized lightweight version of Stable Diffusion (version unspecified) that is \u201ctailored for Exynos,\u201d the report says. The report also claims the model surpasses the implementation Qualcomm previously showcased for running on Snapdragon chips. More importantly, Qualcomm showcased its chipsets\u2019 ability to run these models; there hasn\u2019t been a consumer-facing implementation from any major phone manufacturer, and Samsung could be the first to publicize the capability. Understably, the Exynos 2600\u2019s enhanced 2nm architecture and a hugely improved NPU are expected to play a role here.
Based on the report, the Exynos-run model can create images with a size of 512 x 512 pixels \u201cwithin seconds.\u201d
The report does not mention whether, or how, Samsung plans to implement this on Galaxy S26 variants running the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. Samsung tends to bring similar features to models running both variants, so we hope the Snapdragon-based Galaxy S26 also gets a similar functionality. But to learn more, we\u2019ll simply have to wait until February 25, when the phones are expected to launch.
In addition to this improvement in the image generation, Samsung is also expected to officially showcase a more advanced version of Bixby as part of the One UI 8.5 announcement, along with the Galaxy S26 series. The new version of Bixby is reportedly powered by Perplexity AI, offering better internet search functionality and smarter responses than ever.<\/p>\n