If you were not paying full attention to it appleWWDC 2025 Key note, it was easy to remember one of the notable stories outside this incident. For a conference where its purpose is to show itself as an innovator, Apple looked like it was out of new ideas. Whether it is digging old design concepts or Sherlooking and even third -party appsWe saw a company dependent on the work of others. But more dependent than it was no longer surprising than what is now with apples Open I.
The company announced Monday, with many features of Apple Intelligence, it was quick to note that consumers could turn to open i’s models instead of their homeland system, to perform a task. Are you not being liked a photo of your friends? Chat GPT can help. What about the analysis offered by visual intelligence? If the Apple model is not doing this for you, Chat GPT can also help.
They are just two examples. There are more. Open AI models are also available through the updated shortcut app, and, in particular, in the new version of Apple’s X -Code App Development Sweet. In fact, according to the Managing Editor of the Angidate, who was on the ground in Capetino, the news that the Chat GPT would be built directly into the Xcode was one of the highest joy of this presentation.
All of this felt like Apple’s interior that its own AI model, even more private, on -device would be made available to developers through a new framework, they are not inaccessible. Apple’s dependence on Openi is not new. Chat GPT has been an integral part of Apple Intelligence from the beginning, but surprisingly, the dependence has deepened.
Before Monday, we all knew that the company was behind in the AI ​​race. In the WBC 2025, Apple offered some assurances that it would soon be captured at any time. For example, he had nothing to say about the more personal personalities at the last year’s conference.
“As we have shared, we are continuing our work to provide the features that make Siri even personal,” said Craig Federgie, senior vice president of the software engineering company. “This work needed more time to reach our high quality bar, and we look forward to sharing more about it in the coming year.”
The “in the coming year” will suggest that the new Siri cannot arrive soon before the beginning of 2026. The tech world has been an eternity for six months to one year, especially when Apple’s rivals are moving so quickly.
As if to bring things in time, Openi announced on Saturday that he had started a rolling Update the highest -level sound This gives the Chattagot more subtle, realistic cadres and expressions. These are all upgrades that Siri can use.
Of course, Apple should choose to turn to Openi to help the AI ​​race that is certainly not lost on anyone in any company.
In May, Openi announced that he was buying Jonny Io’s IO hardware startup ($ 6.5 billion for notification) to support his ambitions for making an AI device. In an interview with New York Times Regarding this acquisition, Open CEO Sam Altman did not clearly mention the former employer of Iow, but he was clearly thinking about the whole conversation about Apple and the iPhone. “We have been waiting for the next thing for 20 years,” he said on one occasion. “We want to bring people out of the Legacy products that we have been using for so long.”
The fact is that the AI ​​devices we have seen so far, including AI Pin and R1, are not getting success, does not mean that Apple is protected from interruption. One, the prescription of Openi and Jonny Iow (even if you add memories like MacBook Pro with its horrible butterfly keyboard) surpass the human and rabbit. As part of the IO Dell, now one of the people working for Openi includes Evans Hanki, who heads Apple’s hardware design for three years after the company’s departure from the company.
You can argue that Apple has already found itself in similar situations and without hiding. For years, the company has relied on Google to offer access to the search engine to its customers (and before and before, but it feels different to me. What is happening in the AI ​​industry does not play the company’s usual powers. This technology is moving faster than Apple’s annual release schedules, which announces a new, more powerful model almost every week. This is not a place where the company can rely on its usual strategy to wait for others to work on the wrists before diving.
It is too early to know whether Apple’s partnership with the Open will eventually hurt Tech Dev, but it is safe to say that the opening is not only happy to be an auxiliary player. Apple is still one of the world’s wealthy companies, with billions of dollars worth of cash – but so much relying on Openi is a rare symbol of danger in a significant part of the tech industry.