Chance Miller, at 9to5Mac on Monday:
Apple’s Siri team, led by Craig Federighi, held a post-WWDC
keynote tech talk with members of the press this afternoon to
talk through iOS 27 and the new Siri AI. During the talk,
Federighi shared more details about Apple’s collaboration with
Google. Federighi was joined by Amar Subramanya (vice president
of AI), Mike Rockwell (Siri lead), and Sebastien Marineau-Mes
(software VP).On the Google collaboration, Federighi explained:
Of course, we don’t have the Gemini app as our app. In fact, none
of that client code is part of how we run on iOS. For these
models, we use none of the models that Google deploys to their
customers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which
they deploy models to their customers. And then, when it comes to
the knowledge base, we of course don’t use Google Search or
anything like that as the foundation of our system. So I hope
that’s clear. The amount of the Google Assistant we use is none.So let’s talk about what we do use, or how our system is built.
This “Tech Talk” was good. It was detailed and technical, and there were live on-stage demos of Siri AI in action from Mike Rockwell. I don’t think Apple is ever going to go back to live on-stage major keynotes, but I do think the company is returning to more live events, including demos. There was a big live Siri AI/Apple Intelligence session for developers Tuesday morning in Steve Jobs Theater, which also had live demos. More like this, please.
