The undisputed star of the show is finally here. Apple has just unveiled the all-new Siri AI, which is powered by the much-improved Apple Foundation Models.
Siri AI has world knowledge as well as your personal information on its fingertips, and is fundamentally on-screen aware
Apple is now debuting a fundamentally improved Apple Intelligence architecture, which consists of new Apple Foundation Models that have been distilled from the very capable Google Gemini models, all coordinated by an orchestrator. Critically, Apple is NOT using Gemini models on your devices.
Of course, depending on the capability of your existing Apple device, you might get higher-power Apple Foundation Models, with the ability to generate speech, high-fidelity dictation, natural language understanding, and more. These models will only be available on the iPhone Air, the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, iPad with an M4 chip or later-gen silicon, and Macs with the M3 chip or later-gen silicon. Basically, you need 12GB of RAM and Apple's A19 Pro or the M3 chip to run these models.
Privacy is at the core of this new architecture, which leverages only on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute. Apple says third-party experts can verify the privacy-related credentials of this architecture.
Now, let's move to the all-new Siri AI, which is built into the Dynamic Island, has access to personalized context, and remains on-screen aware.
For instance, you can now ask Siri AI about an upcoming concert and add the corresponding date to your Reminders with simple voice commands. It can also tell you what a particular image is about, surface personalized context related to that image - a friend who lives near a park, for instance - and give directions to that friend's residence.
Now, you can activate Siri AI with a simple swipe-down from the Dynamic Island. What's more, you can conduct seamless back-and-forth conversations with the new voice assistant in natural language.
Also, Siri AI's voice is also much more customizable. For instance, after selecting a base voice, you can further tweak the speed of its output with the “Pace” slider, and its tone with the "Expressivity" function.
On Macs, Siri AI is integrated within Spotlight. Users can simply right-click any window or item to activate the voice assistant. What's more, the Siri app now stores your complete conversation history, one that can be deleted at your discretion.
Interestingly, in visionOS, you can place Siri AI anywhere in your field of vision, and activate it by simply looking at it. You can then ask Siri AI about anything that is in your field of view.
Siri AI is also integrated within the Camera app, where it can recognize items, and give feedback, or allow you to take actions. For instance, you can aim the camera at a restaurant bill, and then immediately start dividing it up to split it with friends via Apple Cash.
When you write with Siri AI in Mail and Messages apps, it can now adhere to your typical style and how you usually communicate with different people.
On Safari, tabs can now arrange themselves into distinct topics. You can also ask the browser to monitor a page and notify you once the desired trigger appears, all via natural language.
Critically, you can now describe a desired extension to Safari in natural language and it will automatically create it for you.
Also, Apple Intelligence in the Passwords app on OS 27 platforms will agentically change your passwords that are exposed in data breaches and update then in the Passwords app for you.
The new Home app draws on Apple intelligence to understand related notifications as a single activity. So you get one notification that continues to update as this activity happens. It can also use Apple intelligence to analyze recorded clips from compatible cameras and generate descriptions that summarize what happened in them, and because it understands the context, it can also pull up relevant footage from all your cameras.
In the Shortcuts app, you can now simply describe a shortcut in natural language instead of building it step-by-step.
Of course, Image Playground is also getting a big update, where the new Apple Foundation Models now support "photorealistic image creation." With natural language-based prompts, you can create or modify images, change their style, alter dimensions, and add or delete items.
As such, you can use "Extend" functionality to add context-aligned elements to a given image, or use "Enhance" to perk up your photos. Spatial Reframing allows users to "fix" framing and timing of photos after they're taken. You can also touch and drag to "reposition" a camera to change the angle of the photograph.
Siri AI public beta is coming next month, with general availability scheduled with the new OS release, replete with some daily restrictions on usage (and additional usage available with iCloud+). Critically, Siri AI will not be available in China and the EU for now.
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