Samsung is reportedly working on a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature that can turn images into videos. As per a tipster, the South Korean tech giant is developing an AI-powered image-to-video feature that can convert any photo in the user’s gallery into a “few-second-long” video. There are no other details about the feature available, but it is likely to be part of the company’s Galaxy AI suite of features, and could be introduced with the upcoming One UI 8.0 operating system (OS) update in the coming months.
In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), tipster PandaFlash claimed that Samsung is developing an image-to-video AI feature for future smartphones. The tipster also says that the feature can create a few-second-long video using a single image as a reference. No other details were shared.
The information comes just days after the company announced that the Honor 400 series will feature an image-to-video tool that can generate up to five-second-long videos with images as input. TikTok has also announced a similar feature dubbed AI Alive.
It’s worth noting that both of these features merely animate the image in different styles, instead of generating creative and abstract videos with the source image as the reference point. In a way, it is more of an enhancement feature instead of a generation feature.
Honor said that its AI feature will be powered by Google’s Veo 2 video generation model. It is possible that Samsung might also use the same model to offer the image-to-video feature. In 2024, the company partnered with the Mountain View-based tech giant to introduce the Circle to Search feature in the Galaxy S24 series.
Samsung’s AI-powered video generation tool would add to the multimodal capabilities of Galaxy AI. The suite already features tools that can generate images from a text prompt or an image input. However, so far, there are no video generation tools. This currently unnamed feature is speculated to be part of the One UI 8.0 update.
The tech giant is reportedly also working on an AI-powered video summarisation tool. This tool is said to be able to generate a text summary of any online video. The feature is reportedly compatible with platforms like YouTube and Vimeo.
