I don’t understand the audience for this product. Feels like a niche of a niche. Will be interesting to see if they abandon it in a year or two.
Is “Siri AI built-in” the on-device model, or is this thing calling home to Google Gemini each time it hears something?
Which ever is the worst scenario, that is probably the one.
I assume it’ll work the same as all of the other Siri 2.0 devices. A lightweight model on device for simple-ish tasks and then it calls through to Apple Private Cloud Compute which spins up a temporary instance to handle larger tasks before terminating that instance.
It does mean that queries don’t have the broad user context of other companies’ AI agents but I prefer that. I don’t want it knowing absolutely everything about my life, only the task at hand.
