When I hear Apple and AI, I think of Siri. And then of my attempts to use it in my smart home where it would turn off all smart sockets instead of turning on the lights in one room. Or its response latency. Or how I was excited about Apple Intelligence and then removed it completely and am hesitant to upgrade to OS 27.

I understand that we’re talking about local inference with an Apple inference engine for Apple Silicon uniform memory. And I know it’s a stretch of an analogy. But somehow I’ve grown skeptical of Apple’s AI capabilities. Not to say Microsoft’s or Google’s weren’t disappointing.