https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/samsung-bixby-is-now-global/ >Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant is now global after it expanded into over 200 countries today. >Bixby is Samsung’s answer to Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and other virtual assistants. It got off to a bumpy start when it didn’t ship with the launch of the Galaxy S6, Samsung’s top-of-the-range device for this year, in March. Samsung rolled out a ‘preview’ version in June, before the full version with voice-control went live for Korea and then U.S.-based users in July.