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I’m sorry, so your position now is that “being completely invisible to the users” is “controlling the UX”?
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I can't reply to your child comment for whatever reason, but Siri is part of the Apple Foundation Models framework. The idea is that no matter what backend the developer uses, the end user will always say "Hey Siri." This is analogous to controlling the UX. Siri is independent of whichever model the app developer uses.
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No, Siri is entirely separate from this framework.

Are you thinking about Intents? That lets Siri interact with data (and perform some actions in them) from your apps, but it is something completely different.

You can definitely expose things from your app via Intents that will end up calling an external arbitrary LLM somewhere, but it does not require using Foundation Models API whatsoever.

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I think you're taking the written words a bit too literally here. Read it with a more lax filter and less literal word-meaning, and I think the original comment will become a bit clearer.
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You know what, I've been a bit too snipe-y in my previous comments, and it led to to discussion devolving in unproductive ways.

I'd genuinely like to understand where you're coming from more.

I think we're all in agreement that this framework is very much about letting developers swap the models easily, and treat them as commodities. That seems pretty obvious.

I do however still don't see how this has anything to do with controlling the UX (or the new Siri for that matter! The new Siri doesn't use Anthropic models, and there are no extensions point for it to do so — that's pretty much the whole reason why it won't be available in the EU).

Help me see your point of view!

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It's Apple, so it's some revolutionary big brained play, and not just yet another llm sdk.
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