Apple will reportedly unveil its Gemini-powered Siri assistant in February

In Brief

We’re astir to get our archetypal existent look astatine the results of the precocious announced AI concern betwixt Apple and Google, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Gurman reports that Apple is readying to denote a caller mentation of Siri successful the 2nd fractional of February. Using Google’s Gemini AI models, this Siri update volition reportedly beryllium the archetypal to unrecorded up to the promises Apple made successful June 2024, with the quality to implicit tasks by accessing user’s idiosyncratic information and on-screen content.

And that’s up of an adjacent bigger upgrade that Apple plans to denote successful June, astatine its Worldwide Developers Conference, Gurman says. This mentation of Siri is expected to beryllium much conversational, successful the benignant of different chatbots similar ChatGPT, and it could tally straight connected Google’s unreality infrastructure.

Earlier reports suggested that Apple has been struggling to get its AI strategy backmost on-track. In fact, Gurman says Apple’s Mike Rockwell told instauration squad members implicit the summertime that 1 of Gurman’s earlier reports was “bulls–t.” But with the Google partnership, arsenic good arsenic the caller departure of Apple’s AI main John Giannandrea, it seems the institution has so recovered a caller direction.

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