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Two months before the expected Siri overhaul at WWDC, Apple is sending a large part of its Siri team to a multi-day boot camp to learn how to use AI coding tools. Internally, the Siri team is considered a laggard.
Apple's Siri team is under immense pressure. The promised Apple Intelligence version of Siri was supposed to be released with iOS 18, but has been repeatedly delayed. The head of AI, John Giannandrea, has been sidelined and is leaving Apple this week. Now, The Information reports that Apple is sending a large portion of the Siri development team to a multi-day boot camp to teach them how to program with AI tools.
The fact that Apple has to train its own developers in the use of AI coding tools sheds a remarkable light on the internal state of affairs. While other teams at Apple are already spending large portions of their budgets on Claude Code, according to the report, the Siri team has apparently fallen behind. The Information describes the Siri team as having a reputation within Apple as a laggard – a startling detail for the team tasked with developing Apple's most important AI product.
Bootcamp and parallel operation
While part of the team is learning in the bootcamp, around 60 members continue to work directly on Siri. Another 60 employees are busy evaluating Siri's current performance – in particular, whether the voice assistant complies with Apple's security standards and can correctly interpret and execute user commands.
The bootcamp is therefore not a development halt, but a parallel qualification measure. Apple is clearly preparing to accelerate Siri development after the bootcamp – with a team that can use AI coding tools more effectively.
Siri: The Backstory
This move is the latest in a long series of restructuring efforts surrounding Siri and Apple Intelligence. Following the failed launch under Giannandrea, software chief Craig Federighi took over responsibility for AI development. Mike Rockwell, who previously developed Vision Pro, now leads the Siri team. Under Federighi, Apple also closed a deal with Google, which is expected to partially power Siri's future AI functions with Google's Gemini models.
What this means for WWDC
Apple is expected to unveil the revamped version of Siri at WWDC in June – likely as part of iOS 27. Whether the Bootcamp and organizational changes will take effect in time to deliver a compelling demo remains to be seen. The pressure is immense: Apple has repeatedly promised and postponed the Siri overhaul. Asking for patience yet again is unlikely to be well-received by either users or investors. (Image: Shutterstock / Mamun_Sheikh)
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