Mark Gurman, reporting (?) for Bloomberg two short months ago:
Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence
assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI
platform. The company is preparing to make the change as part of a
Siri overhaul in its upcoming iOS 27 operating system update,
according to people with knowledge of the matter. The assistant
can already tap into ChatGPT through a partnership with OpenAI,
but Apple will now allow competing services to do the same.The company is developing new tools to allow AI chatbot apps
installed via the App Store to integrate with the Siri assistant,
said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans
haven’t been announced. The chatbots will also work with an
upcoming Siri app and other features in the Apple Intelligence
platform.That means, for instance, if users have Alphabet Inc.’s Google
Gemini or Anthropic PBC’s Claude installed, they’d be able to send
queries to those services from within the Siri voice assistant,
just like they have been able to with ChatGPT since Apple
Intelligence launched in 2024.
Maybe Apple ran out of time today, and will announce this tomorrow? Maybe they forgot to announce it? Maybe they scrapped the next-generation Siri that existed two months ago and in the last month rebuilt an entire entirely new next-generation Siri. I’ll bet something like that is what happened.
I mean, people had knowledge of the matter.
