Apple's new internal chatbot, Enchante, serves dual purposes — to act as an employee assistant while gathering crucial performance feedback for future Apple Intelligence features.

Apple may not have released the new, improved Siri yet, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't rolled out new AI-powered assistants. It just hasn't rolled them out to its customers — yet.

According to sources who spoke to MacWorld, Apple is testing out two new chatbot-style AI assistants for employees. The first, Enchante, is designed to work similarly to ChatGPT.

First rolled out in November 2025, employees can use Enchante to proofread their work, brainstorm ideas, develop, and use it for general knowledge answers. Apparently, the interface resembles the ChatGPT app for macOS.

There's a pretty big benefit for the company in using an internally developed chatbot. By doing so, it doesn't need to worry about internal data being uploaded to third-party servers.

According to MacWorld's source, the app can run locally and on private servers. It's powered by Apple's own Foundation models, but also provides access to both Claude and Gemini.

The second is Enterprise Assistant, which has a distinctly more corporate purpose.

Enterprise Assistant is allegedly built entirely around Apple's internal large language models. It functions primarily as a centralized knowledge hub for Apple's corporate employees.

Employees can use it to search for company-specific information. They can ask questions about conduct guidelines, health insurance benefits, vacation policies, or even technical setup instructions for things like Apple's VPN on iPhone.

While the two tools may only ever be used internally, what Apple learns from them surely will make it into customer-facing services. Both Enchante and Enterprise Assistant give its users the option to evaluate the generated responses.

That data is crucial, as Apple will be able to learn directly from its internal staff how well its AI tools are performing. While the source didn't confirm this, it seems pretty likely that Apple would take the lessons it learns in-house and use them on other tools, as it has in the past.

In September 2025, we learned that Apple had been working on an internal ChatGPT-like iPhone app, dubbed Veritas.

In October 2025, Tim Cook said that the new, improved Siri was on track for a 2026 release.