Apple’s new AI-powered Siri?

Insiders at Apple HQ have leaked that, after 13 years, Apple is building a new Siri—codenamed LLM Siri—designed to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT with ‘Advanced Voice’, and Google’s Gemini Live.

The new voice assistant will be powered by Large Language Models, allowing it to engage in more natural-flowing, 2-way conversations with users, and understand and complete complex tasks, quicker and more effectively.

The revamped Siri will replace the existing interface, and will reportedly work like ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, but with additional access to personal information, more control over third-party apps, and—through the integration of Apple Intelligence—can summarize and write text, too.

According to internal sources, a handful of die-hard Apple fans could get access to the new Siri as soon as next year, when they release the iOS 19 update, but other Apple users are unlikely to get access until Spring 2026: A year and a half away!

These insider reports seem to solidify rumors that have been swirling since June, when Apple announced that Apple Intelligence was “the start of a new era” for the voice assistant, which was then followed by hints, dropped by VP of Software—Craig Federighi—that an AI Siri would be better than ChatGPT, and then the discovery of a job listing that specifically mentioned “voice assistant technology.”

The question is, if we have to wait over a year for something that Google and OpenAI already kind of offer, is the new Siri likely to be that revolutionary? After all, time moves fast in the world of AI…