- Bloomberg reports that Apple looks at the Gemini to feed Siri
- The best bits of Apple Intelligence are still delayed up to 2026
- No confirmation of one or the other company, and the report put the discussions in the early stages
Apple’s efforts to deliver the smartest Siri and the full Apple Intelligence we were promised “in the coming year” could get an improbable third party if the last Bloomberg report is true. The iPhone manufacturer would be in exploratory discussions at an early stage on the integration of Gemini in Siri.
There are not many details beyond, although Mark Gurman de Bloomberg maintains that the transition to these Google cats occurred after Apple could not reach financial terms with Anthropic (manufacturer of Claude AI).
The possibility that Apple uses a much more accomplished generative AI from Gemini and one of his models (Gemini Pro, Flash, Lite?)
How we got here
While work with third parties has always been part of Apple Intelligence’s strategy, Apple CEO, Tim Cook and business developing leadership, has never mentioned ingestion of AI models of someone else. It is also a fact that the deployment of Apple Intelligence did not go exactly as planned.
In the conversation of Techradar to WWDC 2025 with the main vice-president of Apple software engineering, Craig Federighi, who also manages the development efforts of Apple AI, he explained why the company had not delivered in time full of Apple intelligence and a smarter Siri. After having struggled to operate the V1 architecture as they wanted, Apple had a decision to make:
“… fundamentally, we found that the limits of architecture V1 did not bring us to the quality level of which we know our customers and we expect.” He added: “As soon as we realized that […] We said to the world that we were not going to be able to publish it, and we were going to continue working on new architecture and freeing something. “”
Gurman, however, argues that Apple is still not fully determined to use his own architecture and models and will soon take the decision to outsource him or not to a third party like Google for at least part of the necessary intelligence. Again, the discussions he describes are in the first stages. And anything, assuming that they exist, it is unlikely that they have an impact on the next version of iOS 26, which has a handful of Apple intelligence updates but practically none to Siri.
Far from foreigners
Apple and Google are already research partners (Google is the default Safari search engine), and in Apple Visual Intelligence, where you can choose to use Google to search for captured images (or you can ask the Openai Chatpt on their subject).
However, Gemini inside Siri would mark a major turning point for Apple and an admission that it is simply not up to the task of competing in the sphere of AI, at least not at the level of an Openai, anthropic, perplexity or Google.
This approach, however, is not unknown; Microsoft’s co -pilot is essentially a reskkinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn (although there are questions if Microsoft will continue to have access to the best models of Openai).
Even so, Apple has put a lot of efforts and marketing in Apple Intelligence. The question is: can it still be called if a large piece is powered by Google?
We contacted Apple and Google to comment. Google had no comments. We will update this story if and when Apple answers.
