Siri AI at WWDC 2026★ 72
Simon Willison's Weblog24 minutes agoCommentarySimon Willison says Apple’s 2024 Apple Intelligence rollout made him cautious, so he will believe the WWDC 2026 Siri AI claims only after seeing results. He notes the new features look more feasible, especially with a custom Gemini-derived model running on Private Cloud Compute. He also highlights vision LLM screen understanding and the new Core AI library for running PyTorch-derived models on Apple hardware.
Apple Reveals New AI Architecture Built Around Google Gemini Models★ 78
Hacker News (AI keywords)5 hours agoReleaseApple announced a major Apple Intelligence overhaul built around Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google using technologies behind Gemini. The architecture supports on-device and Private Cloud Compute execution, with stronger reasoning, understanding, and multimodal capabilities. A new system orchestrator coordinates AI features across Apple platforms, though Apple has not yet specified which devices receive the higher-power model.