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Source: Macworld Siri will reportedly evolve into a full-fledged chatbot this fall https://share.google/jR8qJ3RsaUWVRfxgA
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It looks like Apple is boosting Siri to handle your requests better by adopting AI further into Siri. Take a read on the following. As far as my personal interest is concerned? Meh!....Jim
Gemini-Powered Siri Reportedly Set to Arrive on iPhones Next Month.
Apple's long-overdue Siri features will be powered by Gemini, and they'll arrive in the second half of February, Bloomberg reports.
Apple announced an AI partnership with Google earlier this month, and the first results of the collaboration will become available through an updated Siri next month, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.
Apple has had a tough time with Siri over the past few years. The personalized Siri it promised at WWDC 2024, giving the assistant the ability to tap into a user’s personal data or take actions across apps autonomously, has been long overdue. Following delays, the company vowed to release those new features this year.
To live up to that promise, Apple desperately needed Google’s Gemini models, Gurman says. The company’s software leadership had admitted last year that the delays were due to struggles with Siri’s underlying architecture.
All of that is in the past now. We’ll get to see demos of Gemini-powered Siri as early as the second half of February, Gurman says. Apple may not hold a special event for it, but instead show off the new Siri capabilities at a controlled media briefing in New York.
Interestingly, shortly after the AI partnership announcement, Google launched Personal Intelligence for the Gemini app. It gives the chatbot the ability to tap into a user’s Gmail, YouTube, Search, and Photos history and deliver more personalized responses. A slightly more limited version of Personal Intelligence, able to draw only from Gmail and Photos history, rolled out to AI Mode in Search last week.
It would not be surprising if Apple demos a version of Gemini’s Personal Intelligence on Siri in its rumored February announcement.
The timeline, on the other hand, aligns with a previous Bloomberg report that suggested Apple was targeting iOS 26.4 for the launch of Siri’s delayed features. Gurman now says the beta version of the software is expected to come out in late February, while the stable version is expected to arrive in March or April.