Apple begins evaluating Anthropic (alongside OpenAI) to bring artificial intelligence to Siri

Apple changes course and considers external AI providers for Siri

In recent years, Apple had focused almost exclusively on its in-house capabilities for developing artificial intelligence within its products, determined to directly control every aspect of Siri’s evolution. However, as reported today by major international agencies like Bloomberg and Reuters, the Cupertino company is now considering integrating advanced AI models developed by external providers—particularly OpenAI and Anthropic—to enhance Siri in anticipation of new features planned by 2026.

This news marks a clear reversal from the strategies known so far: whereas until a few months ago Apple seemed determined to protect even its technological autonomy, it is now examining the adoption of third-party language models, considering the possibility of testing Siri versions powered by private cloud and based on next-generation LLM technologies.

Until now, the collaboration between Apple and Anthropic was limited to developer tools

Although Apple had already begun a technical collaboration with Anthropic, this partnership had so far been confined to the field of software development. As early as May 2025, it had emerged that the Claude Sonnet model would be integrated into a new feature for Xcode—Apple’s historic development environment—as part of an internal tool called “vibe-coding,” designed to accelerate and simplify code writing. This choice was part of a broader framework of experiments with generative models to assist programmers, but it had nothing to do with Siri or its evolution as a virtual assistant for end users.

Despite the significance of that initial collaboration, no public source had ever referred to a broader integration of Anthropic’s technologies into AI services intended for the wider public, as is the case with Siri.

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Only with the news of June 30, 2025, do we learn that Apple is actually considering Anthropic not just as a technical partner for developer tools, but as a possible provider for Siri’s future architecture. The negotiations—still in their preliminary phase—aim to verify the possibility of running Anthropic’s (or OpenAI’s) LLMs on Apple’s private cloud, to ensure secure, controlled, and confidential integration in line with the company’s traditional privacy principles.

This paradigm shift opens up new prospects: Apple, which until yesterday had made the closed nature of its ecosystem a badge of honor, now finds itself needing to keep pace with the rapid developments of global LLMs and implicitly recognizes that, to keep Siri competitive, it needs to tap into the innovation generated by external players—even at the cost of revising its historic technological independence.

Why Apple might choose Anthropic or OpenAI: strategic differences and future prospects

The ongoing negotiations reflect a phase of great fluidity. On one hand, OpenAI stands as the industry leader with a well-tested technology (ChatGPT); on the other, Anthropic is establishing itself as one of the most innovative and safety-focused entities, with special attention to model alignment and transparency. For Apple, choosing one partner over the other is not just a matter of technical performance—it involves strategic considerations such as privacy, assistant personalization, cloud solution scalability, and the ability to maintain control over the user experience.

Anthropic’s approach to AI safety and ethics could be particularly attractive to Apple, which has always prioritized these aspects. At the same time, OpenAI offers a platform that is already widely adopted and able to integrate quickly with market standards.

The effects on the future of Siri and Apple users’ habits

The possible integration of external LLMs—whether Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT—would represent a real revolution for Siri. The assistant could finally overcome the limitations that users have complained about for years: overly rigid answers, poor context understanding, inability to follow complex conversations, and lack of proactive execution of advanced actions.

With this shift, Siri could approach the flexibility, precision, and creativity of the most advanced chatbots already present on other platforms, while also offering the privacy guarantees typical of Apple. For users, this would mean not only a more useful Siri, but a decidedly more modern, dynamic, and personalized overall experience.

Curiosities and lesser-discussed implications of this news

The opening toward Anthropic or OpenAI is also a signal to the entire sector: Apple, historically reluctant to outsource core functions, now admits that the race for innovation requires increasingly sophisticated partnerships. This could further accelerate the spread of multi-provider models in the world of consumer devices, with ripple effects on the strategies of all big tech companies.

It should also be noted that this move could have significant repercussions on the security policies and business models of LLM providers, encouraging the creation of customized or tailor-made versions for individual operators, in line with the privacy and control needs of the Apple platform.

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