Jeon Kyung-hoon Samsung Electronics CTO "Agentic AI, Full Force on Technology Preparation"

[Financial News] "The era of 'Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI)' that thinks and acts on its own is becoming full-fledged. Samsung Electronics will also prepare technology that provides practical help to users in line with the times."
Jeon Kyung-hoon, Samsung Electronics Device eXperience (DX) Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and head of Samsung Research (President), said at the second day event of the 'Samsung AI Forum 2025' held on the 16th, "The core of Agentic AI is advanced inference capabilities and active tool utilization," he said.
He added, "Agentic AI is exactly the topic we will discuss today," and "I hope this will be an opportunity to share foundational technology and examples applied to actual products and services as we transition to the era of Agentic AI."
The theme of the Samsung AI Forum, now in its 9th year, is undoubtedly 'AI'. Previously, Jeon Young-hyun, Vice Chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics, emphasized the transition to AI on the 15th, saying, "We are developing foundational technology that applies AI technology to various tasks, allowing it to be easily and quickly utilized anytime and anywhere." The fact that it was held about two months earlier than last year's event also reflects Samsung's internal sense of crisis that it must preemptively respond to the AI transition, according to industry views. The theme of the second day is 'Beyond Generative AI, to Agentic AI'.
Jeon CTO predicted that AI will evolve into an entity that solves complex problems on its own in the future. He said, "Since the topic of generative AI was introduced to the world in 2022, in less than three years, AI has already become an essential tool across our daily lives and industries," and "Now, AI will go beyond tool utilization at the software level, such as web-based services, to have the capability to perform tasks in the actual physical environment through robots, smart devices, etc.," he predicted.
Samsung shares the latest AI research and examples implemented in actual products at the forum. Specifically, △AI-based white balance technology in cameras △On-device large language models (LLM) and development environments optimized for smartphone devices △New voice AI technology that combines voice synthesis, automatic subtitle generation, and translation.
Jeon CTO said, "We will introduce 'multi-agent orchestration technology' that explores and manages vast knowledge through collaboration among various agents, 'document AI technology' that understands and structures entire documents with a multi-model, and a 'new productivity benchmark' designed based on actual work environments," emphasizing, "It is significant as it is the first attempt to comprehensively evaluate response quality and multilingual performance in actual work, which was difficult to verify with existing benchmarks."
In addition to Jeon CTO, the forum was attended by Joseph Gonzalez, a professor at UC Berkeley and an authority on language models and AI agent research, Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor at Arizona State University and an expert in autonomous planning and decision-making in AI, and Stefano Ermon, co-founder of the startup Inception and a professor at Stanford University, who disclosed diffusion language model (DLM) technology. After the keynote speeches, Samsung Research AI Center Vice President Lee Joo-hyung will have a Q&A session with the keynote speakers.
Jeon CTO said, "Agentic AI will autonomously perform complex and diverse tasks in our daily lives and industrial sites," and "I hope this will be a meaningful opportunity to explore the forefront of AI technology and open a new future." kjh0109@fnnews.com Kwon Jun-ho Reporter