[jroesch]

To chime in Apple already has a lot of great ML talent they are just far more deliberate and slow to change their products. People forget that FaceID was/is one of the most cutting edge ML features ever developed/deployed when it was released a few years ago.

Siri is sort of a red herring because its built by teams and tech that existed before Apple acquired most of its ML talent and some of its inability to evolve has been due to internal politics not the inability to build tech. iOS 17 is an example of Apple moving towards more deep learning speech/text work. I would bet heavily we will see them catch up with well integrated pieces as they have Money, infra, and already the ability to go wide (i.e all iOS users, again think FaceID).