Open Minis Is the iOS Agent I Wish Siri AI Could Be

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Open Minis for iOS. If you were disappointed by the lack of power-user capabilities in Siri AI, this is a real, currently shipping example of what Siri AI could be if only it were powered by a frontier model with truly agentic functionalities. Siri AI, for comparison, presented…something:I also figured it’d be cool to compare the Photos integration in Open Minis to Siri AI’s photo library access. iOS Agents Are ComingMinis, Siri AI, and the upcoming Halo agent for iOS. With Siri AI, Apple is finally shipping a pretty good chatbot with world knowledge and personal context.