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- In iOS 18, Siri could have AI-based powers it hasn’t had before.
- One of these new abilities could be manipulating apps using voice commands.
- iOS 18 and this new Siri upgrade will almost certainly be announced at WWDC on June 10.
Google is all-in on AI, as evidenced by the Google I/O keynote this year. Microsoft is also all-in on AI, as evidenced by the recent launches of Surface machines and Copilot Plus. Meanwhile, Apple is…well, no one really knows what Apple’s doing with AI yet.
However, reliable leaker Mark Gurman (via Bloomberg) has shed a little light on what we can expect. Apparently, Apple has conducted a “revamp of Siri’s underlying software using large language models.” This restructuring of Apple’s digital assistant will give it a new AI-based power: the ability to manipulate apps using voice commands.