This Week's Releases: Siri AI, a Merged Claude App, Meta One and Salesforce's Koa
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Title: This Week's Releases: Siri AI, a Merged Claude App, Meta One and Salesforce's Koa
Date: 17 September 2026
Type: Blog
Author: SAASiQ (contact@saasiq.ai)
Word count: 1276 words
Reading time: 5 min
Published: 17-09-2026
Apple released the new AI version of Siri in iOS 27 on 14 September, built with Google's Gemini models. Anthropic merged its Claude chat and Cowork apps into one, Meta launched paid tiers for Meta AI and its apps, and Salesforce released a reasoning model of its own. Smaller releases from Mozilla and Mistral, Google and PrismML follow.
Siri AI in iOS 27
Apple's annual software updates for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro and Apple TV came out on 14 September, and the largest change is to Siri. It can now draw on personal context from messages, email and photos, understand what is on the screen, and take actions inside apps, including third-party apps such as WhatsApp, Audible, Outlook, Notability and Tripsy. Apple has also added Write with Siri for drafting text, and extended Visual Intelligence, which identifies what the camera is pointed at.
The practical difference is that a request can now involve information held in several apps, and Siri carries it out without the user switching between them. TechCrunch's review ran under the headline 'With iOS 27, I'm actually using Siri again'.
The features need recent hardware: iPhone 16 or later, iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, iPads and Macs with an M1 chip or later, the iPad mini with the A17 Pro chip, Vision Pro, and Apple Watch Series 9 and later, Ultra 2 and later and SE 3. They are available in English, marked as beta, with French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish due in October. In the EU, Siri AI is available at first only on Mac and Vision Pro, and it is not available in China 'while Apple works through regulatory requirements'. Apple's announcement does not list English-language availability country by country.
Apple says the features were built 'in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models'. Requests that need cloud processing go through Apple's Private Cloud Compute, which Apple says handles them without storing personal data or making it available to Apple. The features are free, but some have 'daily usage limits', and Apple says 'expanded access to such features will be available for a fee in the future'.
Claude merges chat and Cowork
On 16 September Anthropic combined Claude's chat app with Cowork, its app for longer tasks that run in the background, into one app on web, desktop and mobile. Claude now decides whether a request needs a conversation or a background task. Three features arrive in beta inside conversations: Claude Docs for documents, Claude Slides for presentations, which export to PowerPoint and PDF, and Claude Design.
Pro and Max subscribers get the change 'over the coming weeks', and it is 'coming soon' for Team and Free plans. Enterprise administrators get 'at least 30 days' notice before any change reaches their organisation, and no pricing changes were announced. A redesign of Projects, the feature that groups chats and files around a piece of work, followed on 17 September.
The day before the merger, Anthropic released Salesforce in Claude, a beta plug-in for all paid plans with 37 skills covering account research, call preparation, pipeline review and updates to CRM records. Salesforce administrators connect it through AgentExchange, Salesforce's marketplace for agent tools. It works within each user's existing Salesforce permissions, so Claude can only see and change what that person already can, and it asks for approval before making changes. Anthropic says Team and Enterprise data is not used for training. David Eckstein, chief financial officer at Legora, said 'sellers turn live data into meeting briefings in seconds instead of hours'.
Meta One
Meta launched Meta One on 15 September, a set of paid subscriptions across its apps. Single-app plans cost $3.99 a month for Instagram Plus, $2.99 for WhatsApp Plus and $3.99 for Facebook Plus. Bundles cost $7.99 a month for Core and $19.99 for Premium. Plans for creators and businesses start at $14.99 a month for Essential and rise through Advanced at $49.99 and Expert at $149 to Max at $499.
Paid tiers include more image and video generation with Meta AI, 'powered by Muse models', and the business tiers include Meta Business Agent. Meta says the plans are available globally, but it has published prices in US dollars only. 'The core experience across our apps and Meta AI has always been free, and that's not changing,' the company said.
Salesforce's Koa
Salesforce released Koa on 15 September, a reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron. A reasoning model works through a problem in steps before it answers, which suits tasks with several stages. Nemotron is open-weight, meaning Nvidia publishes the trained model itself, so another company can build on it and run it on its own infrastructure.
Koa was trained on synthetic customer-service scenarios, with no real customer data, and it is delivered through Agentforce, Salesforce's platform for AI agents, for sales, marketing and service work. Jayesh Govindarajan, who leads Salesforce AI, said reasoning was something 'we've relied on the frontier model providers for. Until now.' Kari Briski of Nvidia listed the reasons as 'sovereign AI, time to first token, efficient reasoning, for the tokenomics'. Salesforce has not published a parameter count, price or benchmark results.
Firefox Smart Window, with Mistral
Mozilla's AI browsing assistant for Firefox, called Smart Window, runs on Mistral's models, Mistral said on 16 September. It is in beta in France and North America now, and reaches the UK and Germany 'later in 2026'. By default chats are not saved on Mozilla's servers, and Mistral has agreed to zero data retention, meaning it keeps nothing from the conversations. Neither company named the model or a price.
Google Home opens to outside AI agents
Google Home now has a Model Context Protocol server in early access, rolling out over the coming weeks. MCP is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to other software: a system that offers an MCP server can be read and operated by any assistant that supports the protocol. Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, OpenClaw and Google Antigravity are supported at launch.
Through it, agents can review camera summaries, monitor activity, control devices and build dashboards across Nest, Works with Google Home and Matter devices. It is available in the US only, and it needs a Google Home Premium Advanced subscription at $20 a month plus a Google Cloud project. MCP is already widely used to connect assistants to business software, and this brings it to household devices.
Bonsai 2, a model that runs on a PC
PrismML released Bonsai 2 27B on 17 September, a compressed version of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B. It uses ternary weights, where each of the model's numerical weights can take only one of three values, which shrinks it to 5.9GB, small enough to run on a PC. TechCrunch reports that it keeps about 98 per cent of the parent model's benchmark scores. PrismML has $22.25 million in seed funding from Khosla, Cerberus and Caltech.
For IT teams
The Apple release is the one most likely to reach staff first, through managed iPhones and Macs. Siri AI can read messages, email and photos on a device and act inside apps such as Outlook, so the Siri and AI settings in the organisation's device management policies should be checked before work devices update.
For Claude Enterprise customers, the 30-day notice period covers the merged app. In SAASiQ's view, the Salesforce plug-in's design, where the assistant inherits each user's existing permissions and asks before changing a record, is the model to ask for in any AI connector to a finance or HR system.
Siri AI in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish is due in October, and Firefox Smart Window is due in the UK later in 2026.
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