Simon Willison highlights Apple's latest Siri AI updates, which reportedly leverage vision LLMs to extract screen information, potentially reducing the need for custom app integrations. The Core AI PyTorch extensions aim to bridge PyTorch models with Apple hardware, offering developers more flexibility. However, the effectiveness of these features remains to be seen, especially given Apple's track record with AI promises.
The limited access to the iOS 27 Developer Beta further clouds the immediate impact. In our view, the real test will be user adoption and performance in diverse scenarios, not just controlled demos.