Oh, how I hope there is a project ongoing at Apple right now to implement some kind of on-device LLM that can drive the phone a la Siri. Any time I open the Bing app on my iPhone to answer a question I think of how useful it could be to ask it to update my calendar, fill out a dinner order, etc. How much time do we collectively waste putzing around with delivery apps etc?
It would be neat, but iPhone hardware has limited memory (and iOS limits that usage further). It would be much faster and higher-quality to run it as an API request like it is today.
Given the incentive, it can push the hardware in this direction.
Or they’ll do a home network device like implement it like a HomeKit hub. So the plugged in resource has more computational power and feeds it to iphones when nearby. Disconnected, the iphone uses a much more rudimentary one or falls back to Siri or a cloud service.