[Calamityjanitor]

This is exactly what Siri wanted to be. Compare with the original Siri keynote https://vimeo.com/5424527

I can't find the exact ~2010 article from before being bought by Apple. I remember in an interview they were talking about making a web agent that could operate and perform tasks on any website, to avoid being locked out by APIs.

[yreg]

I'm very interested in what Apple does with LLMs on iDevices.

They have the right hardware for it and they have all the motivation, with their focus on on-device processing. OTOH they also have a pretty bad history with their AI assistant.

[gffrd]

I've been surprised that Apple hasn't done more to keep pushing beyond the app boundary. The primary pitch for Rabbit from the keynote is basically "it's a layer that sits atop the broken model of modern phones." I think we all agree that the 'evolved state' of phones and apps is disappointing compared to where it could be / where we expected it would go.

They (Apple) are now in the position of being seen as laggards, caught with their pants down by companies releasing products whose core conceits are built atop inefficiency of their "core" models.

For both Humane and Rabbit, it's hard for me to imagine that there's enough "there" there for these to be beyond niche products that don't get starved out by the border-expansion of Apple / Android over the next few years … but I would have also guessed that A+A would have been further out front of this.

[anentropic]

They should have been building this instead of Vision Pro white elephant

[F7F7F7]

They could buy OpenAI two times with just their cash on hand.

This isn’t a case where they had to choose one or the other (not saying that you’re saying that). It seems like they were genuinely caught off guard.

They let almost the entire original Siri team walk didn’t they?

[wkat4242]

Yeah it's sad that Siri stagnated as soon as Apple bought it. They had some great ideas.