Siri AI Comes Home: What HomeView Means for the AI Race
For fifteen years, Siri has been the assistant you tolerate — the one that sets timers fine and fumbles everything else. Today Apple bet the entire smart home on a different Siri. The new Apple HomeView hub, announced at the "Welcome Home" event, puts Siri AI at the center of your living room: a 7-inch display that recognizes your face, pulls your personal context from your iPhone, and talks to your whole family by name. This isn't just a product launch. It's Apple declaring that the AI assistant race has a new front — your home — and that the winner won't be the smartest chatbot, but the assistant that knows you best. Here's what Siri AI on HomeView actually does, how it stacks up against Alexa and Gemini, and what it signals for where AI assistants go next. Why Siri AI Needed a Body Here's the thing about voice assistants: they've been stuck in hockey-puck speakers for a decade. Alexa lives in Echos, Google As...