Apple officially acquired Siri Inc. for an estimated $200 million, taking the advanced semantic natural language processing engine off the independent startup market. This strategic move initiated a fierce corporate arms race to embed voice-activated, cloud-powered conversational AI agents directly into consumer hardware operating systems.
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