Mark Gurman van Bloomberg today has a juicy new report on Apple’s future for AI and Robotics, which he encouraged as a “turnaround” for the company. A kind of comeback, for a company that has missed the boat badly and fans so far disappointed with its AI ambitions.
These future releases all sound great. There are robots, smart home products and large Siri improvements … but we have heard this kind of promise earlier. From Apple Car to Vision Pro to folding iPhones, we have heard rumors that Apple’s things come “in a few years” that never materialize or do not meet expectations. Apple needs its AI-driven products and services to appear on time (the company is already behind competitors) and impresses both fans and critics with their possibilities.
This is what Gurman reports, the pike is coming.
LLM Siri
The basis of the most upcoming projects from Apple is a completely new Siri. Built on a large language model, such as most generative AI customers, are known today (such as Chatgpt), this version of Siri is code name Linwood, but Apple employees just call it ‘LLM Siri’.
This version of Siri would use a personal context to fulfill requests, understand what is on your screen and take action within apps. It was intended to debut earlier this year as part of iOS 18, using a hybrid model-de LLM for some things and the standard on keywords-based Siri for others. That was untenable, so the new Siri was postponed for about a year to be united under this new LLM model.
Linwood uses an LLM developed by Apple, but there is a parallel project code-mentioned Glenwood that would use models that were developed outside of Apple. Gurman says that no decision has been made about which model would be used, but test with Anthropic’s Claude.
Apple also prepares a new visual design for Siri on iPhones and iPads.
Gurman says that Apple employees who have used a future robotics project has used chatgpt or Gemini to build and test functions, and that Apple -employees are increasingly using AI tools made by other companies.
Robots
A new Siri is a fundamental part of future projects, but Apple likes to sell new physical products, not just new software for its existing hardware.
The most important is probably a new table robot, with a screen like an iPad on a motorized, movable limb that can turn itself, tilt and move. If you saw that research project for a robot lamp that we wrote earlier this year, that is what we are talking about – only there will be a screen instead of a lamp head.
Giving this robot a personality will be an important sales argument, but Facetime calls (with your iPhone as a “joystick” that you can use to move the screen) is also a priority.
This robot is supposed to be a kind of ‘person in the room’, even in conversation with useful information. Siri is at the front and center on this device, with a project called “Bubbles” that gives it a visual representation with personality.
This tablet robot is currently expected for release in 2027, but plans remain fluent.
There are several other robots in earlier stages of development, including one with wheels and one with a large mechanical arm that can be used in the production or back of shops.
A new Smart Home operating system
The tablet – robot and another project – an independent Smart Home -Display – both use a new operating system Namnesnchronized Charismatic. They can both also contain the new “Siri with a face” and personality.
But the Smart Home Display is easier and can already launch next year. Think of it as the robot without the mechanical arm and with a less conversation Siri. It is intended to cope with Smart Home control, playing music, making notes, web leaves and, of course, Facetime.
The new charismatic operating system will concentrate on things such as clock faces and widgets, and can scan faces as people approach so that it can show the preferred layout and information of that person. There will be many Apple’s standard apps, but the interface is usually checked via widgets and speech.
The Smart Home display is supposed to be a 7-inch square with thin black or white edges and rounded corners. It is on half a dome base with a few electronics, speakers and microphones. You can also mount it on a wall.
Other Smart Home Products
An AI-driven camera (code name J450) is the following in Apple’s Salvo from AI-driven Smart Home products.
Gurman says it is driven on batteries and will be performed for a few months to a year on a single charge, comparable to many rival home cameras today. It will use face recognition and infrared sensors to determine who is in a room.
In addition to the obvious implications for home security, these are intended to help with home automation. Enlightening the lighting when everyone leaves a room or plays the music that a certain person likes when they are in the room, for example.
This camera is intended as the first of a whole line of Smart Home products that compete with ring and nest. Apple has tested a smart doorbell with face recognition to unlock the door, says Gurman.
Apple’s AI and Smart Home Future
It is clear that Apple must rectify the ship when it comes to AI. Siri practically made the idea of an AI assistant popular, but now it is seen as lagging far behind the position of art.
But Apple’s push to build AI with personality and to build it in Smart Home products, marks a completely new area for the company. It sounds exciting, but we have to remind readers of all the articles we have seen of Apple’s smart car that has never been released (despite a large team that is working on it for years), or how the company has heard the spatial computer era as the future, only to deliver a very expensive and only somewhat useful pair of mixed reality goggles.
Apple plan Sounds great in the rumor mill, and the best things are always only two years away. What comes to our desks and in our pockets is often something else.
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