Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

nicce

That would be really cool, if you can route your local model for it.

vinni2

Hmmm then why is it not available in EU?

syntaxing

I would pay a good chunk of money if Apple released a local AI hub to coordinate all AI usage locally (including photo indexing).

thallosaurus

Don't they need that for China for compliance with their law?

Simulacra

Siri, and Alexa, would be significantly more useful if it could be connected to ChatGPT etc.

akie

This is a very clever platform play. If you make Siri / your mac the central access point for all AI related workflows and make models interchangeable, then Apple has a huge weapon in the AI race.

taybin

It’d be short sighted to not have a wrapper around which AI to use, even without implementation for them. Like, having an abstract parent class with a Siri implementation of it would be baseline good software engineering.

velcrovan

Is there any hint that Siri can be connected to arbitrary MCP providers?

sajithdilshan

That’s actually a good solution. Create a platform where app actions can be invoked with a permission model by any AI model. Maybe apple can even have something similar to MCPs for tool invocations of apps and publish it so all models can actually be trained to use that framework

crazyeng

Just playing the devil advocate: what happens when the answers from a not-Apple LLM are garbage? Who the users are going to blame, Apple or OpenAI, Anthropic, etc..? I'm not 100% on Apple side on this, I would love to chose whatever I want, even local models, but I get why trey trying to control 100% of the user experience. If they could trust any provider with customers data, they would let them in, since they're not competitors. They would even let Apple not spend a ton of money on developing LLMs....

HumblyTossed

News at 11: Developers write decoupled code.

stego-tech

Neat. Now let me point it to an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint of my choosing, like a Mac Mini running Hermes on my LAN. I do not want my personal data or the queries against it to leave my network boundaries if at all possible. This should be a default option.

isodev

Nice, thanks EU for forcing Apple. I guess it was possible all along.

Kuyawa

Siri was the first widely available AI bot but they forgot to open it to developers. The ecosystem would have grown a million fold in all these years Never underestimate the power of a bored programmer Siri turn on the lights Siri code a Doom clone in Swift Siri design a landing page for a Consulting Agency Siri summarize the latest news about AI Siri find a solution to the Riemann hypothesis Now that's an agent I'd use. Can we start with Siri for the terminal? $ Siri 'List the files in this folder'

vouaobrasil

It would be great if AI could be completely removed from iOS altogether, including any underlying frameworks.

kisamoto

In my opinion the OS should broker the communication between harnesses (which is part of Siri), LLMs and app functionality. It can take into account the permissions, the user could configure which LLM to use at an OS system settings level and complex workflows can integrate permissions like FaceID only once as the harness then interacts with APIs exposed by applications (arguably already there with app intents). Self promotion blog article: https://braw.dev/blog/2026-04-06-mobile-os-as-agentic-broker...

kmfrk

Third-party calls won't eat into Apple's compute, so it's not entirely against the interests of Apple as they put caps on people's AI use. I wonder what the margin on this stuff is for them: Some Apple Intelligence features in the Home app, such as video summaries, are available for a limited number of cameras depending on your iCloud+ plan — up to 1 camera in the 2 TB plan, up to 2 cameras in the 6 TB plan, and up to 5 cameras in the 12 TB plan. Supported camera counts and other iCloud+ plan features may change over time. https://support.apple.com/en-us/127901

theturtletalks

Once Siri gets MCP support, it’ll be my main orchestrator. I built an app that lets me run terminals on my MacBook. It’s a Next app so I can go to that website on my phone using Tailscale. It has a built-in MCP server, so I can connect it to ChatGPT and have it create terminal sessions, orchestrate terminal sessions, all that good stuff. Down the line, I’d like to be able to connect it to Siri and just talk to my phone and it can control terminal sessions and projects that I’m working on on my laptop.

davikr

I don't want to tell Siri to ask Claude or GPT - I want Siri to automatically delegate to another model of my choice when it can't answer something, instead of showing irrelevant web searches.

rock_artist

Apple Foundations Models Framework already aimed towards some generalized API for models. Personally I like it, just as I would be a little happier if instead of codex/claude/antigravity (rip gemini cli) I would have single standardized interface. With mobile devices especially where ideally models could be shared across several apps. But this specific code I'd assume is targeted to comply with EU regulations more than anything. OT: Since I've moved to Spain my principal Apple account is still in my home country but I've made another one for local app-store (since some local apps aren't available if you're not in the Spanish store). iPhone is acting really strange, I'm logged to my principal account for iCloud+ and anything and local App Store. If I log back to my principal account, I loose HCE mode and my building NFC app stops working until I re-log in the Spanish Apple Store. If I'm logged at the Spanish account, I loose Siri AI which is blocked in the EU...