Apple Likely to Add Google Gemini and Other AI Models to iOS 18

As part of its Apple Intelligence feature set, Apple on Monday announced a partnership with OpenAI that will allow Siri to access ChatGPT directly in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia to provide better responses in relevant situations.

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In conversation with reporters after the WWDC keynote, Apple's senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi revealed that as Apple Intelligence evolves, the company eventually wants to give its users a choice between different AI models, and suggested that Google Gemini could be an option in the future.

"We think ultimately people are going to have a preference for certain models they want to use, maybe one that's great for creative writing or one that they prefer for coding," said Federighi. "Maybe Google Gemini in the future. I mean, nothing to announce right now, but that's our direction."

Federighi said that Apple's decision to start with ChatGPT was because the company wanted to "start with the best." ‌Siri‌ will leverage GPT-4o for free, with no need to create an account. Requests are not logged and IP addresses are obscured, while ChatGPT subscribers will also be able to access paid features within the experiences.

Apple Intelligence features are not included in the first beta of iOS 18, and instead will become available for testing over the U.S. summer. iOS 18 is expected to be publicly released in September.

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oldwatery Avatar
14 months ago
Cool….now show me the off switch!
Score: 31 Votes (Like | Disagree)
nicolas_s Avatar
14 months ago
It's weird, people have been complaining for years that Apple is late in AI, that Siri is dumb and needs AI, that AI features on other devices like Samsung are so cool compared to Apple.

ChatGPT had the fastest growing user base in history, and everybody seems to love generative AI for everything including writing, photo editing or image generation.

But now that Apple introduced these feature, all of a sudden everybody hates AI ?
Score: 17 Votes (Like | Disagree)
kraistt Avatar
14 months ago

So it was not clear to me watching the videos. Where is the line drawn between the A(pple)I features something built by apple and running on the AS servers and the plugins enabling ChatGPT/Gemini?
i mean, the demo was pretty clear, Siri will suggest using a 3rd party AI to answer the question; you have to accept and then the request is sent to OAI
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CarAnalogy Avatar
14 months ago

What is going on, truly? How are the checks and balances supposed to work between Apple and third parties?
Third parties write the checks, Apple checks the balances.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Stiksi Avatar
14 months ago
Seems Apple has no problem leveraging Open AI’s completely unlicensed dataset. Noted. I knew to expect this from Microsoft but I still had a little hope for Apple to do the right thing.

All big tech companies are trying to outrun legislation and grab as much data and IP for their models as they can before it catches up. Privacy and copyright seem to be yesteryear’s things.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Fuzzball84 Avatar
14 months ago
The drive for embedding AI deep into a variety of OS is at full speed. For a lot of us it’s still not 100 percent clear what is doing what behind the scenes, where the training data and other data sets the current iteration of AI have been “trained” on and what mitigations are in place for security and privacy. Yes they talk about on device AI processing. But a lot of what we do is on device and security remains a concern.

AI undoubtedly has huge benefits but there is a massive rush to be the first. And a patch it later mentality. I mean the legal and moral ramifications have still not been fully communicated and discussed in public for many of these technologies. The ramifications could be huge.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)