TMTPOST -- Apple Inc.   May introduce   a new artificial intelligence ( AI )   feature rivaling   OpenAI   for   its digital voice   assistant Siri   next year,   a report on Wednesday suggested.

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Apple   is working on a   AI-backed   web search system   and   planning to launch   the new tool   and integrate   it into   Siri next year, Bloomberg reported. The new system, reportedly called World Knowledge Answers   by Apple insiders,   will   offer an AI-powered summarization system designed to make results more quickly digestible and more accurate than what ’ s offered by the current Siri. Its   interface   was said to   makes use of text, photos, video and local points of interest.

Apple aims   to release   the new feature   in the   spring   as part of a overhaul   of Siri.   The revamped Siri will include   a   planner,   which   integrate   voice   or text   prompts, a   search system   scanning   the web   or user data,   and a   summarizer   to   all of the information for users, according   to the report.   The new   Siri   thus will reportedly   enable   to take advantage   of personal data and on-screen content to better fulfill queries, and offer more precise   navigation   of   users ’   devices   via voice.

The   report   indicated Apple is relying on Google to   develop   the core components of   the   Siri. Apple   was said to   adopt a custom-built Google   Gemini   model for the summarizer   and the two   companies are   working together on fine-tuning   and   testing it. Apple and   Google   were   reported to   have signed a formal   agreement   this week   to assess and test the   Google model for Siri. Apple is also considering using the Google   model for the planner, while   still evaluating Anthropic ’ s Claude   or in-house models, according to the report.

Apple was reported in February that it   still worked on some big AI-powered upgrade to Siri, but in stead of rollout with iOS18.4, they may be limited or delayed until iOS18.5.A report in   March said Apple ’ s current iOS version of Siri doesn ’ t work as smoothly as it could.  

According to the report,   the modernized Siri, internally known as "LLM ( large language model ) Siri", would merge the two brains into a new architecture that can handle both simple and legacy Siri commands like setting timers, and the advanced AI-powered queries, like carrying out tasks across apps using context like personal details and what ’ s on your screen. Apple plans to merge these two systems and release a new Siri architecture under iOS19, but it ’ s now running behind and won ’ t be unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC ) in June.