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Source document· January 21, 2026
Apple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI
View original at finance.yahoo.comApple to Revamp Siri as a Built-In iPhone, Mac Chatbot to Fend Off OpenAI (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company’s first artificial intelligence chatbot, thrusting the iPhone maker into a generative AI race dominated by OpenAI and Google…
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Releasing a chatbot was never the company's goal
80% confidenceChatGPT surpassed 800 million weekly active users in October
80% confidenceApple didn't want to send users off into some chat experience in order to get things done
80% confidenceThe feature is a central piece of Apple's turnaround plan for the AI market, where it has lagged behind Silicon Valley peers
80% confidenceApple risked falling further behind rivals without its own chatbot
80% confidenceOpenAI is poised to become more of an Apple competitor
80% confidence