Apple reportedly made a ChatGPT-clone to check Siri’s new capabilities

Within the pursuit of truly releasing the up to date model of Siri the corporate promised approach again at WWDC 2024, Apple is taking a web page out of OpenAI’s e book. According to Bloomberg, the corporate has created a ChatGPT-inspired app to check Siri’s new capabilities forward of the discharge of the improved voice assistant subsequent 12 months.

This new app, referred to as “Veritas” internally, will doubtless by no means make its technique to the general public in its present kind, however affords Apple staff a quicker technique to take a look at Siri’s new abilities. That features letting customers search by means of private knowledge saved on their cellphone, like their emails and messages, or taking motion in apps, like enhancing pictures. The brand new app is seemingly additionally a approach for Apple to “collect suggestions on whether or not the chatbot format has worth,” Bloomberg writes.

Whereas an inside app does not make it any clearer how helpful Apple’s up to date Siri can be, it does recommend the undertaking is in a extra superior stage than earlier than. Given the issue the corporate’s confronted really releasing its varied AI merchandise — together with publicly delaying the Siri update again in March 2025 — that is significant.

Apple’s unique promise for Apple Intelligence was that it may provide a curated number of AI-powered options with a degree of privateness and polish that its rivals could not muster. The fact is that Apple shipped a group of so-so options that labored, however could not pull off its actually spectacular demo: a Siri knowledgeable on the context of your life and with the power to truly do issues in your cellphone.

Apple is barely realizing that imaginative and prescient in 2026, Bloomberg studies, by means of a mix of its personal AI fashions, and no less than one third-party mannequin from its rivals. In June, the corporate was reportedly contemplating utilizing a mannequin from either OpenAI or Anthropic, however as of August, the corporate is now apparently circling a partnership with Google.