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Samsung Electronics has officially launched the Samsung AI Forum 2025, which will run from September 15 to 16. Now in its ninth year, the forum continues to serve as a significant platform for global AI research discussions. Industry leaders, scholars, and researchers are gathering to share new findings and set directions for future innovations. The two-day event combines in-person sessions in Korea with online access for a wider international audience.
The executives of the company stated that the forum is a demonstration of the desire of Samsung to develop AI technologies in industries. The program includes keynote talks by the pioneers of AI, technical discussions on applied research, and awards on emerging scholars. The Samsung has claimed that the event has turned out to be one of the most significant AI meetings with a blend of academia and industry to confront both opportunities and threats.
A Global Stage for AI Innovation
According to Samsung Electronics, the AI Forum provides an international platform on which leading professionals share knowledge. The company stressed that the event is not only a research display but also a cooperation area to map the way of AI in the industry and the society. As the world continues to use AI at a rapid pace, forums such as this one offer a unique chance to have cross-sector dialogue.
In his opening remarks, Young Hyun Jun, Vice Chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics, explained that AI now plays a role across Samsung’s entire business. He reported that the company’s focus is on foundational technologies designed to make AI more seamless and intuitive. Jun added that meaningful collaboration with scholars and industry leaders is key to ensuring AI benefits all.
Day One: AI and the Semiconductor Future
On the first day, Samsung held the event in its Device Solutions Division, which was located close to the company’s semiconductor location in Yongin, Korea. The topic was vertical AI and the future of the semiconductor business. Specialists talked about the work of AI in solving the tasks of chip design and production when the manufacturing process is becoming more complicated.
Professor Yoshua Bengio, an innovator in the area of deep learning, introduced the keynote, and has also spoken about the dangers of powerful AI models. He suggested the Scientist AI, which is an approach that has been developed to provide honest information basing on facts. It can be observed that the model, unlike systems that are built with the intention of emulating human preferences, possessed accuracy and factual reliability as an upper hand that makes it safer to apply to sensitive applications (Bengio).
Technical Sessions and Industry Perspectives
Additional sessions highlighted practical AI applications in semiconductor design. Amit Gupta, Senior Vice President at Siemens EDA, presented on the role of AI in electronic design automation. He noted that integrating AI across workflows will unlock new capabilities for the semiconductor industry.
The speakers of POSTECH, KAIST, and Samsung’s own AI Center also presented research. They spoke about AI tools in semiconductor design, software development, and manufacturing. Samsung’s executive Vice President, Yong Ho Song, described AI as a necessary assistant in chip development, which allows quicker addressing of complicated technical problems.
Recognizing the Next Generation of AI Researchers
The forum also honored three academics with the Samsung AI Researcher of the Year award. The winners were Professor Nicolas Papernot from the University of Toronto, Professor Rose Yu from the University of California San Diego, and Professor Lerrel Pinto from New York University. Each awardee presented their latest findings during the event.
Samsung representatives stated that the awards aim to spotlight rising researchers making significant contributions to AI. By recognizing their work, Samsung seeks to encourage further innovation and build stronger global research connections. The company added that academic partnerships are a cornerstone of its AI development strategy.
Day Two: The Era of Agentic AI
The second day of the forum is hosted online by the Samsung Device eXperience Division. The conferences are about transitioning to agentic AI over generative AI, a trend that is driving the research agenda worldwide. There are discussions on how AI can be developed to go beyond text generation to become independent agents with the ability to reason and plan.
Paul (Kyungwhoon) Cheun, CTO of the DX Division and Head of Samsung Research, stated that Samsung is focusing on AI technologies with tangible user benefits. He explained that generative AI is already integrated into many industries, but the next phase will be about agentic AI delivering productivity gains and more intelligent decision-making systems.
Keynotes on Language Models and AI Agents
Professor Joseph E. Gonzalez of UC Berkeley introduced the sleep-time compute paradigm. He explained that this approach allows AI agents to use idle moments for reasoning and planning, enhancing their agentic capabilities. Gonzalez reported that such methods could improve the efficiency of large language model systems.
Professor Subbarao Kambhampati of Arizona State University talked about large reasoning models, which would overcome the constraints of contemporary language models. He observed that text generation has improved, but there are issues of planning, correctness, and rationality. Meanwhile, Professor Stefano Ermon of Stanford University published his work on diffusion language models, which use diffusion to generate text more efficiently.
Samsung Research Demonstrations
Samsung Research’s technical presentations covered several applied AI technologies. These included on-device AI for consumer electronics, document AI for structuring data, and multi-agent systems for automated report generation. The company also unveiled AI tools for camera technology, automatic dubbing, and developer-focused AI studios.
According to Samsung, these developments are intended to bring AI closer to everyday devices while boosting developer efficiency. Executives emphasized that on-device AI, in particular, reflects a broader industry trend toward privacy-focused, low-latency applications. The company stated that such technologies could soon transform how users interact with consumer electronics.
Conclusion: Setting the Course for AI’s Next Chapter
Samsung Electronics made the AI Forum 2025 a milestone in the industry and academia. It covered the opportunities and threats of AI adoption and featured new models and applications. The forum showed how cooperation, with the involvement of world experts, would speed up the development of responsible AI.
The two-day program ensured that AI studies are shifting to agentic systems that are more reasonable and can solve problems. In the case of Samsung, the forum gave the company a stronger footing in the future of AI, coupled with the establishment of good relationships with major scholars. According to the company, such annual meetings will remain the driving force of the integration of AI in technology and society.
