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Google pays Samsung an 'enormous’ amount of money to pre-install Gemini on phones

Google pays Samsung a boatload of cash to pre-install the AI assistant Gemini on its phones. This comes in the form of a fixed monthly payment.

Peter Fitzgerald, Google’s VP of platforms and device partnerships, testified in federal court that it began paying Samsung for this service back in January. Fitzgerald told Judge Amit Metha, who is overseeing the case, that Google provides Samsung with both fixed monthly payments and a percentage of revenue earned from advertisers within the Gemini app. As an aside, if Google is hellbent on handing out Scrooge McDuck-sized bags of money to increase adoption rates of its generative AI app, why not give the regular people who have to actually use the bloatware some of that cash?

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