It has all the familiar symptoms of a big apple release in the works. Theyve been putting ML cores in chips for ages, all of their stuff now has them. They've been letting Siri languish for years. It's become a running joke about how bad it's been.

Remember when everyone was upset that they were letting the MacBook line languish and weren't "putting effort into it anymore/don't care about professionals"? Then they dropped the m series chip laptops, the Mac studio etc. and its balls fast with specialized Asics for video processing etc.

It feels like that pattern to me. Like that team is heads down and apples working on it. So they say very little about it in any of their briefings but the hardware is there ( which they also, weirdly haven't been advertising as much). Seriously those ML cores outperform an old 1080ti I have in a server by orders of magnitude.

it seems like it'd go right along with their "privacy" focused branding too. And now that these other companies are doing the very public beta testing apple can tune it.

Oh and they have all of these hooks available to iOS and Mac users(Mac specifically) with their apple script stuff. Imagine Siri being able to automate a task you do by just asking her?

Anyway, could be wrong but I'd be excited to see it happen.