If there’s a single by means of line at CES 2026, it’s AI dwelling. Each main model desires you absolutely embedded in its imaginative and prescient of the sensible residence — a spot the place your home equipment discuss to one another, anticipate your wants, and quietly decide your life-style selections. LG even showcased an AI robotic butler that resembled R.O.B. from Tremendous Smash Bros., besides this one performs laundry and engages in dialog together with your air conditioner.
Samsung, nevertheless, desires to go greater.
Tucked contained in the Wynn on line casino in Las Vegas, Samsung’s AI Dwelling Exhibit is a sprawling showcase of what the corporate calls its “Companion to AI Living” imaginative and prescient — a completely built-in ecosystem the place the time period ‘AI’ is omnipresent. The setup walks press and attendees by means of a big museum with Samsung merchandise that each one promise to assume, reply, and collaborate in your behalf.
And after I say all the things has AI slapped onto it, I imply all the things. The corporate debuted a first-of-its-kind 130-inch Micro RGB TV that makes use of AI to dynamically tweak image high quality, strip out commentary from soccer broadcasts, or enhance crowd noise to stadium ranges. There are additionally AI-enabled home equipment that gamify the method of discovering a recipe based mostly on what’s in your fridge, then ship directions on to your oven. There’s even an OLED “document participant” that doesn’t play data in any respect — it simply appears to be like like one, presumably for vibes.
Behold. The world’s first 130-Inch Micro RGB TV
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Samsung’s Imaginative and prescient AI Companion sits on the middle of this entire operation, performing because the connective tissue between TVs, telephones, home equipment, and wearables.
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Samsung desires its AI to be the omniscient energy driving your own home. Since at the least 2017, tech journalists have been loudly declaring that there’s no escaping the smart home (and sure, I’m guilty, too), however with every passing yr, we inch nearer to that headline changing into much less prediction and extra lived actuality. Your TV suggests dinner, your fridge confirms the substances, your washer instances its cycle round your schedule, and your robotic vacuum retains an eye fixed on the canine whilst you’re out.
Does all of this really require synthetic intelligence? That’s debatable. However CES has by no means been about restraint. Is it extreme? Completely. Is it spectacular? Additionally sure, even when “AI dwelling” generally seems like advertising.
The Tri-fold is right here too, by the best way
It is primarily a really modern pill.
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I’ll point out this final — fittingly, since Samsung is treating it the identical method — however tucked contained in the AI Dwelling Exhibit is one thing individuals really need to the touch: the Galaxy Z Tri-Fold.
As a result of that is CES and never an Unpacked occasion, Samsung is being low-key about it. There’s no stage demo, no dramatic reveal, no “yet one more factor.” That’s probably as a result of the Tri-Fold is already available on the market in South Korea, and Samsung clearly doesn’t need to step by itself advertising calendar.
If historical past is any indication, the telephone will floor throughout a correct Unpacked occasion. That would imply January, someday within the late spring or summer time, or the autumn window round September or October. Transformed to U.S. pricing, the Galaxy Z Tri-Fold rings in at roughly $2,400 (or 3,590,400 Korean received), which helps clarify why early opinions have been… divided. One notably blunt headline labeled the machine “expensive and half-baked,” which feels each harsh and, relying in your tolerance for folding screens, not totally unfair.
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