Former Siri head John Giannandrea pushed Apple to decide on Google’s Gemini chatbot over ChatGPT for the primary chatbot integration with Siri final yr, in line with a Bloomberg report Apple’s uneven AI efforts.
Giannandrea, an ex-Google govt who was demoted in a management reshuffle in March, thought that OpenAI’s bot wouldn’t have endurance and wasn’t protecting of delicate private information. Regardless of these considerations, Apple introduced ChatGPT’s integration at WWDC in 2025 and made the function obtainable to customers in December.
Apple’s integration lets customers faucet ChatGPT in cases the place Siri isn’t capable of reply a query. Final yr, Apple introduced that it will join extra chatbots, together with Google’s Gemini, to Siri.
Apple can also be in preliminary talks with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to supply Perplexity as a ChatGPT different in Siri and a search supplier within the firm’s Safari browser, in line with Bloomberg.