Apple's New Siri Will Be Powered by Google Gemini

The new Siri from Apple will be based on Google's Gemini technology. According to Bloomberg, Apple is working on a smarter and more powerful version of Siri that will utilize Google Gemini's artificial intelligence. Under the agreement, Apple will pay Google about $1 billion annually for the model with 1.2 trillion parameters developed by Google. In comparison, parameters are a measure of a model's ability to understand and respond to queries. The more parameters, the higher the model's capability, although architecture and training processes remain important. Bloomberg reports that Google's model exceeds Apple's current models in terms of parameters. Currently, Apple's cloud-based Intelligence version has 150 billion parameters, but exact data on other Apple models is not yet available.

Apple plans to use Gemini for summarization features, multi-step planning, and task execution, as well as for some Siri functionalities. The Google model developed for Apple operates on Apple Cloud Compute's private servers, ensuring that Google does not have access to user data. Gemini is built on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, allowing only a portion of the parameters to be activated for each query, providing high computational power without significant costs.

Apple considered using its own models for the Siri version with large language models (LLM), testing options from OpenAI and Anthropic, but opted for Gemini due to Anthropic's high costs. The company already has a partnership with Google for search results: Google will pay about $20 billion annually to be the default search engine on Apple devices. While Apple currently relies on Google, it plans to develop its own models and transition to internal solutions as their capabilities grow. It is already working on a model with 1 trillion parameters, which may be ready by 2026.

Regarding Siri updates, the company planned to present a new version in iOS 18, but the launch was postponed due to shortcomings. A smarter Siri is expected to appear in the iOS 26 update in spring 2026. It will be able to respond to more complex queries and perform more intricate tasks within applications. While Siri will become more functional like models such as Claude and ChatGPT, Apple does not plan to create a separate chatbot application.