Samsung Bringing Perplexity AI Agent to Galaxy S26

Samsung is preparing to fold Perplexity’s AI agent into Galaxy AI on its next generation of flagship phones, the upcoming Galaxy S26 lineup. The move is part of a broader push to turn Galaxy AI into a multi-agent system rather than a single assistant.

According to Samsung’s announcement, Perplexity’s agent will plug directly into core system apps including Samsung Notes, Clock, Gallery, Reminder and Calendar. Samsung also says some third-party apps will support the agent, but it has not yet named which ones.

Perplexity’s integration is designed to behave like its own assistant inside Samsung’s ecosystem. The company says the agent will respond to the wake phrase “Hey Plex” a cue that is unrelated to the similarly named streaming service Plex. Users will also be able to launch it via unspecified physical quick-access controls on supported Galaxy devices.

With Perplexity embedded into apps like Notes and Calendar, the agent is positioned to help with everyday tasks inside Samsung’s own software, though Samsung has not detailed specific workflows or features yet. More information is expected around Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Unpacked event, where the S26 series is due to be a central focus, alongside a revamped version of Bixby.

In a statement, Won-Joon Choi, President, COO and Head of the R&D Office for Samsung’s Mobile eXperience Business, framed the move as a way to broaden what users can do with Galaxy AI. Choi said the expansion is meant to give people “more choice and flexibility” in how they get things done, describing Galaxy AI as an “orchestrator” that brings different forms of AI into “a single, natural, cohesive experience.”

Perplexity’s arrival on Galaxy phones builds on an earlier partnership between the two companies. Last year, Samsung announced it would integrate Perplexity’s AI search engine into Samsung TVs, and the S26 series brings that relationship into the mobile space as a dedicated agent within Galaxy AI.

The new setup underlines Samsung’s shift toward an AI layer that can coordinate multiple agents rather than relying on a single assistant. Bixby, which Samsung has been reworking, is expected to sit alongside these agents in the overall Galaxy AI experience, though Samsung has not yet detailed how responsibilities will be divided among them.

Perplexity itself has drawn scrutiny beyond Samsung’s ecosystem. The company has faced allegations of content scraping and copyright infringement, and it was sued in September by Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica. Those disputes sit in the background as Perplexity gains deeper access to Samsung’s device ecosystem, but they were not a focus of Samsung’s integration announcement.

For now, what is clear is that Samsung’s next flagship phones will ship with Galaxy AI capable of working with more than one agent, and Perplexity will be among the first. The company is positioning this as a way to give users more ways to interact with their devices and more latitude in choosing which AI systems they want to rely on for everyday tasks.