Federighi says Apple hopes to add Google Gemini and other AI models to iOS 18

This sounds like "other models in place of ChatGPT," and for those not in the know, ChatGPT is basically a fallback for requests that Apple's local / private cloud model can't fulfill, and the user has to give consent every time a request is sent to ChatGPT instead. It's barely an iOS feature, it's essentially a Siri integration.

The ChatGPT integration is barely the exciting part of Apple's announcements yesterday. The stuff that is done locally and with Apple's new servers that can interact with your account and data is much more interesting because we haven't had anything this personal comprehensive plugged into an LLM before. I don't really care that I can pass prompts to ChatGPT with Siri.

Not really news here, just "maybe one day instead of passing requests to ChatGPT Siri will pass them to Google"

Apple's trying to make competition between model suppliers, looks very similar to their traditional tactic on physical suppliers to secure a better position for negotiation.

Apple is glad to have some potential future competition for its $20 billion search contract with Google.

After seeing a few mainstream news headlines that were like "Apple adds ChatGPT" as the entire WWDC takeaway, I wonder if this was actually a mistake. It's such a trivial feature, a footnote after plenty of really interesting AI integrations.

I think it adds very little value for customers and distracts from their repeatedly hammered, legit message about privacy. Surely their own chatbot will be competitive with third-party LLMs within the next year or so.

Why not give users choice and control to pick whichever provider they want, with some kind of open API? I feel like this is going down the path they’ve chosen when it comes to search engine choice in Safari or the App Store more broadly, where you can only have the access and information that Apple approves of.