Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Revamped Siri on Track to Launch Next Year

[smulji]

Apple is pursuing a different strategy, which integrates machine intelligence directly into devices.

My reference is this article: https://semiwiki.com/artificial-int...ew-category-poised-to-reignite-the-pc-market/

It may be that Apple has the right idea... taking AI out of the cloud and placing it on devices, for which Apple has a 2-3 year head start.

Future of AI is hybrid (Cloud + device)

 

[smulji]

Presumably this is being released in March, it would mean that the beta will be available in January or February the latest. I highly doubt it at this point !!!

Gurman said Spring 2026. That puts it in the iOS 26.4 time frame

 

[Hank001]

Just don't ask it to start a second timer, how much is left on the timer or to stop the timer.

Or ask het what month it is.

Or ask het to call Mr. and Mrs. Appleseed. The reply is: "I can only call one person at a time". Which is stupid, since there is only 1 contact with their landline. No mobile, so just one number.

 

[iBreatheApple]

Apple's Siri+AI team previously worked on AirPower.

You’re just being facetious, right?

 

[gmnygts]

Future of AI is hybrid (Cloud + device)

Its always going to be Cloud + device... but with Apple, they are going to emphasize the device, and that is why Apple Intelligence (includes Siri) is taking a long time to come to fruition. How much Apple wants to build Apple Intelligence into their hardware (like SOCs --therefore on device) is what's making it appear that Apple is having a tough time with AI.

 

[DMG35]

Apple is pursuing a different strategy, which integrates machine intelligence directly into devices.

My reference is this article: https://semiwiki.com/artificial-int...ew-category-poised-to-reignite-the-pc-market/

It may be that Apple has the right idea... taking AI out of the cloud and placing it on devices, for which Apple has a 2-3 year head start.

That's all well and good, but their implementation of it is still pathetic. The easiest example is cleanup. Samsung absolutely mops the floor with Apple with this feature. Apple is literally 2-3 years behind on just that one feature alone.

 

[BarrettF77]

Tim says a lot of things. Doesn’t make them true. AirPower, Vision Pro, Apple Intelligence, Siri, and on and on.

The only thing he says that has any weight is their earnings.

 

[JosephAW]

Yes iOS 27, macOS 27, no Intel Support.

 

[jimbojoho]

Insane it is taking this long

Actually quite happy it's taking them a while, hopefully they get it spot on

 

[attila]

Siri has gotten increasingly worse as soon as they announced Apple Intelligence.

Is it to lower the bar for us, so the "new" and "revamped" Siri will feel better than it actually is? (just the less-bad Siri we had before)

 

[attila]

It seems almost impossible that Apple could be dead last in the AI race but here we are.

I'm surprised they're in the race at all, given how little other AI companies profit.

 

[nt5672]

Hasn't this been said pretty continuously for the last decade. Maybe Cook should wait until Siri is ready before sprouting off. Oh, wait, it's Cook who never seems to miss an opportunity to pontificate.

 

[nt5672]

Apple's Siri+AI team previously worked on AirPower.

I thought they worked on the cancelled car project. What was it called again?