Apple faced low expectations coming into its Worldwide Developers Conference this year. That it still failed to meet them says a lot about where the company is with artificial intelligence. The company wrapped the opening keynote of its annual developers’ conference on Monday with no major surprises about its AI efforts.

Apple's modest AI updates announced Monday did little to shake the sense that the iPhone maker is still finding its footing in AI as rivals charge ahead. Why it matters: AI is widely seen as the largest technology shift in decades and could easily serve as an inflection point where existing leaders are dethroned and new ones crowned.