We're less than two weeks from Apple's big WWDC 2024 event, where artificial intelligence will be at the center of everything. GenAI features will be built into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15. Most of them will run locally on the device. Apple should also release a smarter Siri that will supposedly handle more complex queries. But that Siri might not work on Apple tech alone. OpenAI appears to be the likeliest partner for iOS 18's chatbot abilities. That's what we already expect, thanks to the flurry of reports detailing Apple's efforts to match the AI capabilities of its rivals. A new report sheds more information on Apple's supposed partnership with OpenAI. Apparently, the deal has been in the making for months. Not only that, but Apple may use OpenAI's ChatGPT language models to power some of the most complex new Siri features. The deal supposedly has Microsoft worried, even though an OpenAI partnership with Apple could be lucrative for Microsoft as well. The software giant is the biggest investor in OpenAI. But if the report is accurate, I can't help but wonder what the ChatGPT-powered experience might be like, and whether it'll be enough to make me stop using ChatGPT Plus as a standalone product. ChatGPT is my go-to chatbot, and I'm convinced I'll keep using it even after it gets iOS 18 integration. Continue reading... The post ChatGPT is coming to iOS 18, but ChatGPT Plus will still be better appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best Apple deals for May 2024 Best Apple Watch deals for May 2024 Best Fire TV Stick deals for May 2024 Memorial Day deals: $20 Amazon credit, $329 iPad 10, $20 TOZO earbuds, Hydro Flask, Motorola foldables, more