Apple Aiming to Make Siri 'More Like an Agent' as Soon as Next Year: Report
John Ternus is pressing Apple’s software chief to speed up Siri upgrades as the company races OpenAI and Meta on agentic AI.
- Apple CEO John Ternus pressured software chief Craig Federighi to "accelerate" Siri's development, aiming to transform the voice assistant into an autonomous AI agent, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on Sunday.
- Frustrated by what he sees as a "reluctance to embrace AI with the same urgency as competitors", Ternus reportedly held a closed-door meeting with Federighi to push for a strategy rivaling OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse.
- Unlike Siri's "primarily request-based today" system, agentic AI would track long-term goals and execute autonomous tasks in the background, such as booking tables through OpenTable or ordering food via Uber Eats, without constant user instructions.
- To facilitate faster innovation, Apple has adjusted its iOS 28 development cycles, allotting engineers 6 weeks for "coding, exploration and feature development" and 2 weeks for integration, replacing the previous four-week split.
- If the plan moves forward, Apple could debut a proactive Siri preview at WWDC in June 2027, followed by a full iOS 28 release in September 2027, aiming to compete with rivals "as early as next year".
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Apple’s CEO presses Federighi to move faster toward an agentic Siri
Apple chief executive John Ternus has pushed software chief Craig Federighi to speed up Apple’s AI plans, Mark Gurman reported for Bloomberg on Sunday. Ternus wants Apple to move beyond improving Siri. According to the report, he held a closed-door meeting with Federighi in recent weeks. Ternus is frustrated by what he sees as Apple’s […] This story continues at The Next Web
Siri will have a very quick change of focus according to Mark Gurman, it will start acting as an AI agent next year
Apple is developing its own voice assistant to be more able to carry out tasks independently, by understanding user demands and implementing a series of steps within applications, rather than merely answering questions and responding to direct orders.
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