The revamped Siri will secretly use Google Gemini behind the scenes, new report claims

Apple's improved and AI-ified Siri is now rumored to arrive in iOS 26.4, scheduled for release this coming spring, following multiple delays. That's some good news for users of the company's devices, but a new report makes an interesting claim about what's going on behind the scenes.

Apple will allegedly use Google Gemini models for the new Siri, but won't tell anyone. Apple is basically paying Google to create a custom Gemini-based model that can run on Apple's private cloud servers to power Siri.

Interestingly, Apple apparently pitted Google's Gemini against Anthropic's Claude and found the latter a better model, but decided that going with Google would make better financial sense, given the two companies' existing relationship (Google pays Apple to be the default search option on its devices). So, presumably, Google would just pay Apple less for that while also giving it access to its models.

Don't expect any Gemini branding anywhere, or either company to publicly acknowledge this partnership. Apple will advertise all of this as its own AI, even though it isn't.

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