Apple’s Siri-AI, or more shouting into the void about “private” agents (opens in new tab)

Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. The deal describes a partnership with Google to inject that company’s advanced LLM models into Siri. In some ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most preeminent voice agents, and it would probably be good if it didn’t suck. The idea that Apple would boost its capabilities with models from a frontier LLM lab wasn’t so much a matter of “if”, but a question of “when” and “who“. Introd...