Apple is rolling out a significantly upgraded Siri AI as part of macOS 27, codenamed Golden Gate, and early impressions suggest the company may finally be delivering on its long-promised artificial intelligence ambitions — at least enough to recapture the attention of users who had written Siri off entirely.
According to The Verge, a reviewer who had disabled Siri on the Mac years ago and "never looked back" found the new version compelling enough to reconsider. The same reviewer described the existing Apple Intelligence features as so "fruitless" they never engaged with them — making the tentative endorsement of the new Siri AI all the more striking.
The outlet notes it is still early in testing, with only limited hands-on time so far, and stops well short of declaring the product a success. But the shift in tone from outright dismissal to cautious curiosity reflects a broader question the tech industry has been asking: can Apple close the gap with rival AI assistants from Google and Amazon after years of criticism that Siri had fallen behind?
Apple has been under sustained pressure to modernize its voice assistant since competitors began integrating large language models into their products. The company rebranded its AI push as "Apple Intelligence" and promised tighter Siri integration, but early rollouts drew mixed reviews from users and press alike.
The new version arriving with macOS 27 Golden Gate appears to focus on expanded conversational capabilities — suggesting Apple is pushing Siri closer to the kind of back-and-forth dialogue that users have come to expect from ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
It matters because Siri ships on more than a billion active Apple devices, meaning even incremental improvements to the assistant could reshape how hundreds of millions of people interact with their computers and phones every day.