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All signs are that they are doing exactly that. They already have an on-device LLM which powers certain features, and I expect they will have a better-trained version of that on-device model that comes out with the "new Siri" update.

In the original announcement of the Siri revamped a couple of years ago, they specifically talked about having the on-device model handle everything it can, and only using the cloud models for the harder or more open ended questions.