Frustrated Wall Street Analysts Want Apple to Buy Perplexity. It's Reportedly Planning to Beef up Siri to Beat It Instead
Apple's new AI-powered 'World Knowledge Answers' will summarize web data in Siri using Google's AI model, aiming to launch by spring 2026 as part of an extensive Siri overhaul.
- Apple plans to launch an AI-enhanced Siri overhaul including a new web search tool called World Knowledge Answers in spring 2026.
- This launch follows long delays and a recent U.S. court ruling preserving Apple's $20 billion Google search deal with minor adjustments.
- Apple is collaborating with Google to test a Google-developed large language model to power parts of the new Siri, while retaining its own models for privacy.
- Craig Federighi, leading Apple's Siri strategy, said the revamp "puts us in a position to deliver a much bigger upgrade" than initially envisioned.
- The new Siri overhaul aims to better answer queries using AI summarization and device data integration, signaling Apple's intent to compete more directly in generative AI.
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