Huge news from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg. Apple is considering partnering with Anthropic or OpenAI for Siri:

After multiple rounds of testing, Rockwell and other executives concluded that Anthropic’s technology is most promising for Siri’s needs, the people said. That led Adrian Perica, the company’s vice president of corporate development, to start discussions with Anthropic about using Claude, the people said.

This is probably the right move, and there’s still plenty for in-house AI researchers to work on. If they go ahead with it, delaying Siri was justified, and worth taking the heat for.

@jeknotes Anthropic would be an excellent fit. Also they are big, but not quite too big to acquire like OpenAI, so Apple could even make a long-term strategic investment.

@manton maybe I should start testing Claude and eventually Drop ChatGPT / Perplexity, then?

@numericcitizen I’m pretty sure if this deal does go through, all the Anthropic / Claude details would be completely hidden behind Siri. And Apple could still choose OpenAI, or go it alone.

@manton probably. It’s funny how Apple’s model of “owning the whole widget” falls apart on the AI arena…