Apple could eventually create a direct competitor to OpenClaw, an agentic AI system capable of autonomously operating software on behalf of the user, Bloomberg» Mark Gurman believes.
Writing in his Power On newsletter, Gurman says he expects Apple to develop a system capable of fully exploiting iPhone, iPad and Mac software on behalf of the user. This prediction follows comments made by Mike Rockwell, Apple’s Siri engineering chief, following last week’s WWDC keynote.
Rockwell appeared to leave the door open to expanding Siri beyond its current capabilities, describing the new engine underpinning the assistant as “a completely modern architecture” built with extensibility in mind:
(An agent is) something that operates on a loop of incoming information, making decisions, then taking action. And ours is primarily based on demand today. But the underlying architecture of Siri is a completely modern architecture, and so our ability to expand into the future is very similar.
Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, acknowledged the existence of a broader category, but was measured in his definition, describing the space as experimental and saying that finding the right user experience remains the priority, although not ruling out possible Apple participation.
Apple’s next implementation of Siri is newly rebuilt on an extended language model basis and remains a query-based system. Fully desktop-useable agentic functionality of the type offered by OpenClaw and similar tools from Google and Anthropic would represent a significant expansion beyond what Apple announced last week.
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