Apple might not release its Apple Intelligence update to Siri until Spring 2026, nearly two years after it first announced the more capable version of its voice assistant.

What follows is all reckless speculation—you’ve been warned. But maybe Apple sees all this irritation, and maybe the reason why they’re so “ late to the AI party ” is because they’re looking at the AI belief bell curve—which I doubt, because it’s something I just made up.

Apple Inc., long the envy of its Silicon Valley peers, is now facing one of the most trying times of the post-Steve Jobs era.

Apple Intelligence was designed to leverage things that generative AI already does well, like text and image generation, to improve upon existing features.

Apple’s big developer summit is a Silicon Valley institution. The company has been hosting it every year since 1983, and in more recent years the events have become a fixture of the tech hype machine — a chance for Apple to show off its latest software to investors and the folks who build apps for those products.

The researchers examined what they call "large reasoning models" (LRMs), which attempt to simulate a logical reasoning process by producing a deliberative text output sometimes called " chain-of-thought reasoning" that ostensibly assists with solving problems in a step-by-step fashion.

Apple announced one important — and immediate — upgrade at WWDC this week, the introduction of support for third-party large language models (LLM), such as ChatGPT from within Xcode. It’s a big step that should benefit developers, accelerating app development.

Apple’s AI rollout has been rocky, from Siri delays to underwhelming Apple Intelligence features. WSJ’s Joanna Stern sits down with software chief Craig Federighi and marketing head Greg Joswiak to talk about the future of AI at Apple—and what the heck happened to that smarter Siri.

Apple executives are keeping silent about future Apple Intelligence plans, but a new rumor suggests the 2026 release of contextual Siri is just the start on a road to chatbots and always-on assistants.