I just tried Siri AI in the iOS 27 CarPlay beta — and this assistant is way more helpful than before

Siri AI in iOS 27 CarPlay.

I have a confession to make. As much as I use CarPlay whenever I’m testing the best electric cars, I rarely try to interact with Siri. Instead, I’ve found Meta AI to be way more helpful because it’s something I can access right from my Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses. But the real reason I use it over Siri in CarPlay is simply because of how smart it is.

Now that I’m running the iOS 27 developer beta on my iPhone 17 Pro, I have access to Siri AI on all of my drives. Since I’ve been so accustomed to Meta AI, I’m way more critical and have higher expectations for how Apple’s new AI chatbot works. After a week of using it, here’s what I found.