Apple is opening up Siri to more third party AI chatbots, new rumor claims

According to a new rumor from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who is usually a very reliable source of Apple-related information, the company is planning some big changes to Siri in iOS 27, which is due to be unveiled on June 8.

We don’t just mean that the long-awaited, much-delayed AI-infused Gemini-powered Siri will finally make an appearance. Gurman now says Apple will also “open up” Siri and will let it run any AI service via an extension that plugs into Siri if a respective third-party AI app allows this.

Thus, ChatGPT will no longer be an exclusive partner for Siri. Currently, when Siri can’t answer something, it can relay your query to ChatGPT. This is also how things will work in iOS 27, but you will be able to pick another AI provider to which Siri will hand off the query instead.

Apple will make money on App Store subscriptions for these AI services, and this means Apple won’t strike any more one-off partnership deals like it did with OpenAI for the currently exclusive ChatGPT integration.

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