Oct. 28 (UPI) — Tech giant Apple announced its new ‘Apple Intelligence’ tool on Monday and a series of other updates are now available for its iPhone, iPad and Mac users.

“Apple Intelligence ushers in a new era for iPhone, iPad and Mac, delivering never-before-seen experiences and tools that will transform what our users can accomplish,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a press conference. release.

In addition to being operational on Apple’s mobile operating system iOS 18, Apple Intelligence was to be present on the iPadOS used by the iPad. It will also be in its latest version on Apple’s macOS Sequoia operating system.

As a result, Apple said its first set of Apple Intelligence features for users are now available through its free software update with the release of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and its macOS Sequoia 15.1 software.

Cook said Apple Intelligence is generative AI in a way “only Apple can deliver.” And the company, he said, is “incredibly excited” about its ability to “enrich the lives of our users,” which the company described as taking the form of new updates across the board. system to make its operating system more user-friendly.

“Apple Intelligence builds on years of AI and machine learning innovation to put Apple’s generative models at the heart of our devices, giving our users an easy-to-use personal intelligence system “, Cook added, while protecting user privacy.

In June, the company unveiled for the first time its new innovations in Cupertino, California at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. But Monday marked just the first round of “many more” new feature updates rolling out in the coming months,” he said.

Apple users, the company said, will be able to refine the language by rewriting, proofreading and summarizing text virtually anywhere they write, including Mail, Messages, Notes, Pages and third-party apps.

According to Apple, its new AI system “harnesses the power” of Apple to better understand and create images and language capabilities, maneuver between apps “and draw on personal context to simplify and accelerate tasks daily lives while taking an extraordinary step forward for privacy” in artificial intelligence.

Apple said it had partnered with ChatGPT creator OpenAI and that its new writing tools would be available and would also leverage AI.

On Monday, a senior Apple executive added that the new “Apple Intelligence” would be able to unlock “exciting new capabilities” to make a device “even more useful and helpful.”

“From writing tools to help you refine your writing, to summary notifications that highlight what’s most important, to the ability to search for almost anything in your photos and videos by simply describing it,” a said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. .

Federighi says it’s all built on a foundation of privacy with on-device processing and “private cloud computing,” he said. Calling it a “revolutionary new approach,” Federighi added that it “extends privacy and security from iPhone to the cloud to protect user information.”

“This is just the beginning,” the Apple executive said.