Apple’s ‘Veritas’ chatbot is reportedly an employee-only test of Siri’s AI upgrades

Siri’s caller logo.

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman Apple is investigating Siri’s upcoming revamp utilizing an interior chatbot called Veritas. The company’s struggles arsenic it tries to support gait successful the AI contention are nary secret. The next-gen Siri has been delayed multiple times and the debut of Apple Intelligence was met with a tepid response. Veritas gives Apple the quality to rapidly develop, test, and cod feedback connected caller Siri features similar “search[ing] done idiosyncratic data… and perform[ing] in-app actions similar editing photos.“

According to Gurman Veritas resembles different chatbot apps similar ChatGPT and Gemini. Employees benignant requests, person backmost and distant conversations, and tin adjacent revisit aged exchanges to excavation deeper connected a peculiar topic. But, astatine slightest for now, it doesn’t look similar there’s immoderate program to merchandise it to consumers. (Which Gurman believes is simply a mistake.) Instead Apple plans to support its interior chatbot conscionable that, internal. Instead it’s looking progressively apt that Apple is going to rely connected Google’s Gemini for its AI-powered search.