苹果公司正悄然调整其在人工智能领域的策略，组建了一个名为“Answers, Knowledge, and Information”（AKI）的团队，旨在开发类似ChatGPT的搜索新体验。该团队由Robby Walker领导，向机器学习与AI高级副总裁John Giannandrea汇报。AKI团队的目标是构建一个能够直接提供答案而非仅仅跳转至搜索结果的“答案引擎”，通过爬取网页信息来回答用户问题。尽管项目尚处早期阶段，但已发布相关工程师招聘信息，预示着苹果将在搜索算法和引擎开发上发力。此举被视为苹果回应市场对AI技术日益增长的需求，并可能为Siri等产品带来重大升级。

🌟 苹果公司正积极布局人工智能领域，组建了“Answers, Knowledge, and Information”（AKI）团队，旨在革新其搜索体验。

💡 AKI团队的核心任务是开发一个类似ChatGPT的“答案引擎”，能够直接为用户提供信息和解答，而非仅仅提供搜索链接。

🚀 该团队由Robby Walker领导，并招聘相关工程师，专注于搜索算法和引擎的开发，显示出苹果在AI搜索技术上的决心。

🔍 AKI团队的努力有望集成到Siri等现有苹果产品中，以提升用户体验，尽管Siri的AI升级预计在2026年春季发布。

It’s no secret that Apple is falling behind in the AI space. Other companies like Google have embraced things like AI search, whereas Apple has taken its sweet time tooling around with some AI-powered tools that make up the core of Apple Intelligence. Per Mark Gurman’s latest Power On Newsletter, that may be changing in the future. 

Apple has apparently been quietly putting together an “Answers, Knowledge, and Information” team, also known as AKI. This AKI team is headed by Robby Walker, a senior director at Apple who reports to John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president of Machine Learning and AI. Robby was moved to the AKI team after a shakeup in the wake of Siri feature delays.

The team's goal is fairly straightforward: to build a “new ChatGPT-like search experience,” says Gurman. 

As Gurman states, the initiative is still in its early days, but Apple already has job listings posted for engineers. Not much else is known. The team is working on the aforementioned system to crawl search results and give answers instead of redirecting people directly to the search results. This “answer engine,” as Gurman calls it, would be able to crawl the web to gather information and respond to questions like ChatGPT does. 

A standalone app and backend infrastructure plans to power everything may be in the works. One of the job listings specifically mentions search algorithms and engine development, so Apple may also be working on search engine stuff. 

It’s no secret that Apple Intelligence can use the help. Response to Apple’s AI-powered tools has been lukewarm, and while Cupertino has studied how to integrate AI into its operating systems more aggressively, it hasn’t been terribly happy with what’s seen so far.

Siri’s AI upgrade is still in the works with an expected release date of spring 2026, so it’s likely that AKI’s work will be directly integrated into Siri and Apple’s other products if they can get it done on time.