Apple Hiring for 'Answers' Team Working on 'ChatGPT-Like Search'

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Apple is hiring engineers for an "Answers, Knowledge, and Information" squad that is moving connected improving Siri, Spotlight, Safari, and more.

As of writing, Apple's careers website has much than a twelve occupation listings for the squad crossed the U.S. and China. For example, Apple is looking to prosecute a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to assistance with "improving Siri's quality to reply idiosyncratic domain questions." The occupation listing says the squad develops ample connection models that are "responsible for answering users' questions utilizing their idiosyncratic documents with privateness astatine the forefront."

That sounds a batch similar Apple's personalized Siri features, which were delayed until 2026. However, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says determination is much astatine play here.

In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said helium was told that the squad is successful the aboriginal stages of processing a "new ChatGPT-like hunt experience," and it is seemingly adjacent exploring a "standalone app" for specified functionality.

"While inactive successful aboriginal stages, the squad is gathering what it calls an 'answer engine' — a strategy susceptible of crawling the web to respond to general-knowledge questions," wrote Gurman. "A standalone app is presently nether exploration, alongside caller back-end infrastructure meant to powerfulness hunt capabilities successful aboriginal versions of Siri, Spotlight and Safari."

Gurman antecedently reported that Apple was processing a much conversational mentation of Siri, but helium said that it was delayed until astatine slightest iOS 27. This would beryllium a much ChatGPT-like mentation of Siri that is powered by a ample connection model.

For now, the lone happening that Apple has announced is the much personalized mentation of Siri, which volition person amended knowing of a user's idiosyncratic context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls. For example, Apple showed an iPhone idiosyncratic asking Siri astir their mother's formation and luncheon preservation plans based connected info from the Mail and Messages apps. Evidently, though, it looks similar Apple has adjacent bigger ChatGPT-like ambitions.