Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is smarter than the new Siri

... and almost no one was surprised. At least that's what I imagine.

I gave Siri a PDF of medical provider statements and asked for a sum of the payments. It defaulted to finding the value on the first page. I pointed out it was wrong. Then it summed payments across a few pages. Still wrong. I gave up.

I handed the same document to QFN through Hermes. It extracted the text and summed. Then it used vision to doubl-checked itself.

So...

1. Siri is still an idiot
2. QFN 3\_xxs is quite good at administrative agent tasks
3. There goes another reason to want to buy a new iPhone.

UPDATE: Evidently, many commenters are unaware that Apple leverages cloud-hosted AIs (Gemini) and uses more than just on-device AI.

UPDATE 2 (for the less than generous commenters): Please consider stopping for a moment, before commenting and ask yourself, "Will this comment make the world better or am I just trying to make someone else feel bad?" If the latter, it's probably best for the world, and your own psyche, to exercise forbearance.

UPDATE 3: The point of the post was to *celebrate* what many of us have access to now that most people buying high end phones do not.