This team — reportedly called Answers, Knowledge, and Information — is working to build an “answer engine” that can respond to questions using information from across the web. This could be a standalone app or provide search capabilities in Siri, Safari, and other Apple products.

Apple is quietly building a new AI search engine to improve Siri and compete with ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. A new team called AKI is leading the project, but the launch is still far off.

Apple’s historic practice of “fiscal frugality,” or careful spending, has most likely put it behind in the AI race, and while the company has tried to avoid jumping on the AI bandwagon, Apple CEO Tim Cook has now publicly said that he’s ready to spend more to catch up.