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New Delhi: Apple Inc. is said to be about to sign a contract with Google, an affiliate of Alphabet Inc., to apply its potent Gemini AI model to the next redesign of Siri. The deal would allow Siri to use the 1.2 trillion parameter AI system of Google, which is $1 billion worth of leaps compared to the 150 billion parameter AI system of the current Apple cloud model. The collaboration is expected to introduce more advanced reasoning, summarisation, and task performance features to Siri because Apple is scrambling to match the rapidly changing AI competition, reported by Bloomberg.
The structure will have the Google Gemini model assume the role of summariser and planner services of Siri and enhance the way the assistant organises information and executes complicated tasks. To ensure high privacy of users and data control, Apple will operate the model on its own Private Cloud Compute servers. Although Apple is supposed to use Gemini as a temporary solution, it is also currently working on its own 1 trillion parameter model, which may be available to consumer users as early as next year.
Apple allegedly tried a number of third-party AI models before settling on Google, including ChatGPT by OpenAI and Claude by Anthropic, but found Gemini to give the best performance. The next version of Siri will be called Siri and internally named Linwood, and it will be released next spring as part of iOS 26.4. Mike Rockwell, who created the software Vision Pro, and Craig Federighi, who is the leader of the software side, are the heads of the project, called Glenwood at Apple.
This AI collaboration will be in the background as opposed to the long-standing deal with the Google search engine that renders the search engine as the default choice on the Safari browser. Siri will be based on Google technology, but all data processing will be done on Apple servers; user information will not be attached to Google servers. Apple has already dedicated special AI server hardware to this purpose.
Although this partnership will emphasise the short-term reliance of Apple on Google, the firm is still dedicated to the development of its superior AI solutions. The internal models division is striving to have a trillion-parameter model that will compete with the performance of Gemini. Although Apple has in recent years lost some of its talents to competitors such as Meta, the executives remain optimistic that they will close the gap within the next year.
Apple is also gearing up to take its new AI-powered Siri to the foreign markets, such as China. Nevertheless, since Google is forbidden in the country, Apple will utilise its own models with local collaborators such as Alibaba and Baidu. The China-localised version will be in line with the local content rules, and it will guarantee a localised and governmentally authorised experience.
