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Gurman: Anthropic demanded $1B+ in year one to power Siri
“Anthropic wanted multiples of billions. I believe starting in a billion in year one and doubling every year thereafter, at least for the next three years.”
Gurman: Apple to release Gemini-powered Siri revamp in spring 2026
“The big AI thing for Apple is the revamped Siri coming out in the spring. They're using a Google Gemini model to power it, which I think is going to make it pretty top tier.”
Tan: Opening Apple devices to rival AI agents would spur investment
“Then there are a billion consumers in the world who would suddenly have access to not just one self-preference Siri, but a variety of American labs. And that would open up investment. That would open up prosperity.”
Rabois: Apple's reported two-year AI delay is a devastating, generational setback
“Two years is like, you know, as other people have pointed out, two years in an AI world is an eternity. You might as well say I'm delaying something for 20 years or, you know, like two generations at this point. It's crazy. And so I think that's a serious prob…”
Apple Reportedly Rebuilding Siri as OS-Integrated Chatbot 'Campos'
“Apple plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominated by OpenAI on Google. The chatbot, codenamed Kempos, will be emb…”
Coogan: Siri needs a standalone app because chat interfaces are dominant
“I think that Siri will need an app. I think that the LLM chat interface is so dominant at this point that everyone has the experience of Going back and forth asynchronously, like it's chatting to a helpful assistant, like you're texting with a friend.”
Coogan: Integrating Gemini Will Upgrade Siri From D-Tier to B-Tier
“We're going from like a D tier product to now we're baking in a new model, Gemini, which is going to take it to like B tier.”
Gurman: Apple built an in-house AI search to rival Perplexity
“What they haven't talked about Is AI web search. And so the new Siri is also going to have a chat GPT perplexity competitor for things like deep research and summarizing search. That is going to be an Apple built, an Apple powered system.”
Gurman: Apple will probably replace Google's model with an in-house model
“You can also bet, at some point, they'll probably figure out their own model to replace the Google thing, so I don't think it's a long-term bet.”
Gurman: Apple Probably Won't Rename Siri Despite Brand Damage
“I don't think they're gonna make a name change, but they should.”
Patel: Incumbents Struggle With AI Because They Treat It as a Feature
“They're not AGI filled enough, you know, like if you treat it like another feature well, I mean, even if you treat it like another feature, it's like mysterious why Siri doesn't work on my phone, but like, it's like more people basically. And if you take that …”
Coogan: Apple is two years behind ChatGPT and should have replaced Siri
“The AI thing has been really, really difficult for Apple, in my opinion, because they're two years behind ChatGPT. Like, the day ChatGPT came out, They should have ripped out Siri and had an LLM replace it in terms of just like what consumers would want.”
Coogan: Audio interfaces and latency matter more for Apple wearables than biometrics
“The real opportunity is something more around audio interfaces, link it to Siri, have more ways to triangulate what the person's trying to say, what they're saying in a noisy environment, whether they're trying to be quiet and you still want to isolate what th…”
Coogan: Siri has 500 million users versus 1.5 billion total iPhones
“Estimates are around five hundred million active Siri users globally, which is huge, but there's 1.5 billion iPhone users, so Having only a third of your user base use your AI feature seems a little bit low, if that's the case.”
Gurman: Upgraded Siri commerce integrations will become a massive business
“When this new Siri starts working, when it has those upgraded technologies that mean that I can call an Uber for my phone and know that it's actually going to happen, then they'll be able to come to those financial agreements because people are going to start …”
Gurman: Apple Will Not Remove ChatGPT-Siri Integration
“They're not taking that away. They're not taking it away.”
Hays: Apple AI teams use ChatGPT and Gemini during product development
“During the development of the tabletop robot, Apple engineers have made heavy use of ChatGPT and Google Gemini to build and test features. Within Apple AI and Siri Teams as a whole, software developers are increasingly using third-party systems as part of thei…”
Coogan: Apple will eventually perfect AI and Siri integration via on-device data
“I think Apple will eventually dial it in. I mean, the tech is just so good at this point, it's, like, really easy, and they have a bunch of interesting ways to integrate with all the data in your phone, so you'll just be able to talk to Siri more”