We still haven't gotten to use Apple Intelligence yet, and here comes Siri AI. This is a pie that's been drawn out for three years—three years and another three years. When will it end?
Yesterday, Apple released an official press release announcing a brand-new version of Siri AI, custom-built on Gemini at its core and combining on-device processing with Private Cloud Compute.
After all this time trying to go it alone, Apple finally settled on a partnership with Google.
Feature-wise, Siri AI is basically still the same stuff, pretty much as described at the launch event: reading and writing emails, screen awareness, syncing conversation history, photo recognition, writing assistance, audio recognition, and so on.
It's launching in English first, as a Beta, and it's already officially live. In October, it will expand to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. In China, we won't get it anyway; the EU gets the same treatment as us, so we won't be too lonely.
The partnership with Google will definitely cost money. The cloud model has a daily quota cap, and paid expansion plans will almost certainly be introduced later. If it's bundled with iCloud, I don't mind; if it's a standalone subscription, forget it—I'd just as soon skip this pie.