HomePods are excluded from artificial intelligence

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The big news from Apple for the end of 2024 and especially for 2025 will be Artificial Intelligence and the new Siri which will finally be useful for something, but Those of us who were hoping our HomePods would finally be truly smart are going to have to make do with what we have now.because there won’t be a new Siri for them.

One of the main new features of Apple Intelligence is undoubtedly the new Siri. Apple’s virtual assistant has been stagnating for years, some even consider that it has regressed in its capabilities in recent times. With Apple’s new Artificial Intelligence (AI) will come a new Siri that will finally be able to give us more appropriate and complex answers, execute commands in a more natural way and comply with what is expected of a true digital assistant. However, Mark Gurman has taken it upon himself to destroy all these expectations, because according to his information, Current HomePods, even the latest generation, will not have this new Siri because they do not have the ability to run Apple Intelligence.

Worse yet, according to Gurman, even the recently rumored new HomePod, which is rumored to include a touchscreen and is still months away from launch, won’t be able to integrate Apple’s artificial intelligence.

The development of Apple Intelligence as we know it today is quite recent, and that is why Gurman assures that even the new HomePod that will be launched in the coming months will not have the necessary hardware to be able to run it. Does this mean that there will be no AI in Apple speakers? Well, it seems that it will be, at least until the company Launch your next home product as an “office robot”. Mark Gurman has given us few details about this new product, which will be a kind of speaker with a robotic screen capable of moving to follow us (very useful for video conferences, for example) and that will be able to make affirmative or negative movements, just as we do with our heads. It will be the replacement for the HomePod, says Gurman, but it is still in an initial phase of development and, therefore, we are still far from its presentation. Mark Gurman has not even dared to give a possible release date. In the meantime, we will have to enjoy the sound of our HomePods and wait for Apple to do something with the next model it launches so that it can integrate some Apple Intelligence, otherwise its existence will make no sense.