The revamped Siri will secretly use Google Gemini behind the scenes, new report claims | Infinium-tech
After several delays, Apple’s improved and AI-ified Siri is now rumored to be coming to iOS 26.4, which is scheduled to be released this upcoming spring. 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 reportedly use the Google Gemini model for the new Siri, but won’t tell anyone. Apple is basically paying Google to build 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 Cloud and found the latter to be a superior model, but decided that going with Google would make better financial sense, given the two companies’ existing relationship (Google pays Apple for the default search option on its devices). So, presumably, Google will pay Apple less for it, while also giving it access to its models.
Don’t expect there to be Gemini branding anywhere, or for any companies to publicly acknowledge this partnership. Apple will advertise all of these as its own AI, even though it is not.
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