Tim Cook says more AIs are coming to Apple Intelligence

Tim Cook says Apple has plans to embed much third-party AI tools into the company’s operating systems. “Our volition is to integrate with much radical implicit time,” Cook said successful an interrogation with CNBC. Apple has already embedded ChatGPT into Siri, with a Google Gemini integration said to beryllium successful the works, on with rumors swirling astir a concern with Anthropic and Perplexity.

This isn’t the archetypal clip we’re proceeding astir third-party integrations, arsenic Apple bundle SVP Craig Federighi said past twelvemonth that the company “may look guardant to doing integrations with antithetic models similar Google Gemini successful the future.”

Cook besides said that Apple is connected way to merchandise an AI-upgraded Siri adjacent year, adding that “our volition is to integrate with much radical implicit time.” Apple is “making bully progress” connected Siri, helium added during an net telephone connected Thursday, noting that AI acquisitions are inactive connected the table. “We are unfastened to pursuing M&A [mergers and acquisitions] if we deliberation that it volition beforehand our roadmap,” Cook said, echoing a connection from July.

The quality comes arsenic Apple releases its fourth 4th net results, which revealed that the institution raked successful a grounds $102.5 cardinal implicit the past fewer months, marking an 8 percent summation erstwhile compared to the aforesaid clip past year. 

Even with past month’s motorboat of the iPhone 17, Apple has yet to recognize its plans for AI, which is expected to bring an enhanced Siri crossed its devices. A caller report from Bloomberg suggested that Apple could spouse with Google to physique an AI hunt instrumentality for Siri. Google CEO Sundar Pichai besides confirmed past twelvemonth that the company is moving connected Gemini support for the iPhone.

Sales from the iPhone 17 lineup apt lone marque up a tiny information of Apple’s wide $49.03 cardinal successful iPhone revenue. The caller lineup includes the iPhone Air — Apple’s thinnest instrumentality yet —  on with the upgraded iPhone 17 and 17 Pro. This year, Apple brought immoderate features antecedently reserved for its Pro-level iPhones to its entry-level device, including an always-on show with ProMotion enactment for smoother scrolling.

Apple’s Mac gross roseate to $8.72 billion, and it reported $6.95 cardinal successful gross from iPads. Apple’s services division, which includes subscriptions to Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Fitness Plus, and Apple Arcade, grew to $28.8 billion.

Apple besides conscionable released an upgraded iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and a Vision Pro headset, each with an M5-flavored spec bump. Rumors bespeak that the institution is getting acceptable to merchandise a budget-friendly iPhone 17e adjacent year, too.

Update, October 30th: Added discourse from Cook.