[noahtallen]

I don't think this is a fair take. It sounds like the vast majority of the new AI features (including the local personal context for Siri, the various text/image editing features, better photo categorization, and the list goes on) are all local, on-device models, which can, if needed, use Apple's private cloud. That requires public researcher verification of server software for iOS to even talk to it. (Allegedly :))

The OpenAI partnership is seemingly only if Siri decides it doesn't have the full context needed to answer. (E.g. if you ask something very creative/generative.) At that point, Siri says "hey, chatGPT might be better at answering this, do you consent to me sending your prompt to them?" and then you get to choose. Apple's partnership also seems to include the various settings that prevent OpenAI from tracking/training on the prompts sent in.

Honestly, that more creative side of genAI is not as interesting in the full context of Apple Intelligence. The real power is coming from the local, personal context, where Siri can deduce context based on your emails, messages, calendar events, maps, photos, etc. to really deeply integrate with apps. (Allegedly!) And that part is not OpenAI.

[atlex2]

Agreed. Apple pretty clearly focused on building an action-tuned model. Also, notice how in the videos you barely see any "Siri speech". I wonder what they used for pre-training, but probably they did it with much more legit datasources-- They're launching with English only.