Seoul July 29 (IANS) About half of smartphones sold globally this year will have an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered assistant a report by an industry consulting firm showed Sunday.
According to Strategy Analytics (SA) Inc. 47.7 per cent of smartphones sold on the global market will be equipped with some kind of on-device AI assistant up from 36.6 per cent last year Yonhap news agency reported.
On-device AI is growing fast among smartphone vendors and by 2023 around 90 per cent of smartphones will have a built-in AI assistant according to the Strategy Analytics report.
In 2017 Google Assistant rose to be the top AI assistant with a 46.7 per cent market share followed by Apple s Siri with 40.1 per cent it said.
The report said the market share of Google s AI assistant is expected to climb to 51.3 per cent this year and 60.6 per cent by 2023.

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