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 means 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 yr.

This new app, known as “Veritas” internally, will possible by no means make its option to the general public in its present kind, however presents Apple staff a quicker option to check Siri’s new abilities. That features letting customers search by way of private knowledge saved on their cellphone, like their emails and messages, or taking motion in apps, like modifying images. The brand new app is seemingly additionally a means for Apple to “collect suggestions on whether or not the chatbot format has worth,” Bloomberg writes.

Whereas an inner app does not make it any clearer how helpful Apple’s up to date Siri might be, it does counsel the challenge is in a extra superior stage than earlier than. Given the problem the corporate’s confronted really releasing its numerous 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 might provide a curated choice of AI-powered options with a degree of privateness and polish that its rivals could not muster. The truth is that Apple shipped a set of so-so options that labored, however could not pull off its really spectacular demo: a Siri knowledgeable on the context of your life and with the flexibility to really do issues in your cellphone.

Apple is just realizing that imaginative and prescient in 2026, Bloomberg stories, by way of a mixture 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.