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Google pays Samsung monthly for the pre-installation of Gemini AI app.<\/p>\n
The payment arrangement is a two-year agreement with subscription revenue share.<\/p>\n
DOJ attorney described the fixed monthly payment as an “enormous sum.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Google has admitted to paying an “enormous sum of money” to Samsung each month to have its Gemini AI app pre-installed on the smartphones developed by the South Korean company. Peter Fitzgerald, Google’s vice president of platforms and device partnerships, testified that Google started paying Samsung in January this year despite the company being found to have violated antitrust law, according to a report in Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n As per the publication, Mr\u00a0Fitzgerald revealed that the Gemini deal is a two-year agreement where, apart from the fixed monthly payments, Google gives Samsung\u00a0a percentage of its subscription revenue for the Gemini app.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer David Dahlquist also called the fixed monthly payment an \u201cenormous sum”. However, neither Google nor the DOJ have divulged how exactly enormous the sum is.<\/p>\n The new revelation comes at a time when\u00a0Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the current case, has already stated that the practice of paying companies to set their apps as default on Samsung phones was a clear violation of the antitrust laws.<\/p>\n
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