Dubbed "LLM Siri" by Apple employees (LLM standing for large language model), the new Siri is already being tested internally on iPhones, iPads, and Macs as a standalone app. But if all goes well, the new assistant will eventually replace the Siri we all know and have a hard time loving.

Popular new chatbots, starting with OpenAI’s 2-year-old ChatGPT and the wave of AI assistants that followed, have become increasingly conversational. Now, Apple (AAPL) is looking to make its pre-teenaged voice assistant,

Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on an "LLM Siri" for iOS 19 that will be more conversational to compete with ChatGPT.