Reports that Safari will have an 'Intelligent Search' feature that uses AI to search from iOS 18
Apple Insider, an Apple-related news site, reports that Safari 18, which will be released in the second half of 2024, will be equipped with an 'intelligent search' feature that enables searches using generative AI. In addition to intelligent search, it is said that a 'web eraser' function and a new UI will be added.
Apple to unveil AI-enabled Safari with iOS 18 & macOS 15
'Intelligent Search' is a feature that Apple plans to include in Safari 18, which is currently under development, and is said to be able to generate text summaries using Apple's on-device artificial intelligence technology, particularly the Ajax language model.
The Ajax language model is an on-device language model developed by Apple that identifies descriptive sentences and object structure descriptions in text. It also recognizes repeated words and key sentences in text and treats them as topics of the text. It was reported that the Ajax language model had been under development within Apple since 2023.
Intelligent Search is not enabled by default in test builds of Safari 18 and must be enabled manually. The feature is thought to be Apple's effort to counter rival generative AI techniques such as OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Safari 18 will also have a new feature called 'Web Eraser' that allows you to remove unwanted content from any webpage. With this Web Eraser, you can remove banner ads, images, text, entire sections of a page, and more from a webpage. What's more, once you delete something, it's saved permanently, so even if you close the tab or window and reopen the same webpage, the content you deleted last time won't be displayed. Of course, users can always restore the contents of a webpage to its original state.
And in Safari 18, the UI (user interface) has been revised, aiming to consolidate options that were previously scattered in various places into one place. According to AppleInsider, in Safari running on the early release version of macOS 15, the new page control menu incorporates the 'Aa' menu commonly seen in iPadOS browsers, and zoom options, privacy management, content blocking, extensions, etc. are consolidated into the 'Aa' button in the address bar.
In addition, AppleInsider states that a feature called 'visual search' will be added to Safari in 2025. As the name suggests, this visual search is a feature that allows you to search from images on web pages or photos taken with the camera, but details have not been revealed.
These new features of Safari 18 are scheduled to be revealed at the annual developer conference 'WWDC 2024' to be held in June 2024.
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