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Apple’s latest Ferret AI model is a step towards Siri seeing and controlling iPhone apps

Apple is still working on ways to help Siri see apps on a display, as a new paper explains how it is working on a version of Ferret that will work locally on an iPhone.

Curious dark brown ferret with a white snout and ears peeks up from dense green grass and leaves, framed closely by foliage outdoors
A ferret in the wild – Image Credit: Pixabay/Michael Sehlmeyer

The work by Apple to bring Siri up to speed with other AI systems usable on a smartphone is gradually accelerating. While immediate attempts to bring a new more contextual Siri to fruition isn’t quite ready for primetime, Apple is still looking to the future for other updates it can do to its assistant and Apple Intelligence.

It seems that the path ahead is to focus on its strength: local processing of queries.

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