Apple and Google Partner on Multi-Year Deal to Power Siri with Gemini AI

Apple and Google have announced a multi-year partnership in which Apple's next-generation AI features, including a revamped Siri, will be powered by Google's Gemini AI models and cloud infrastructure. This collaboration marks a significant shift for Apple, traditionally reliant on in-house development, aiming to enhance Siri's capabilities and overall AI offerings. Apple emphasized maintaining its privacy standards by running AI features on devices or its Private Cloud Compute. The deal, reportedly worth around $1 billion annually, strengthens Google's position in the AI race and contributed to Alphabet briefly surpassing Apple with a $4 trillion market valuation. The partnership has drawn criticism from Elon Musk, who called it an "unreasonable concentration of power" for Google, given its dominance in other platforms. Apple continues to maintain existing integrations with OpenAI's ChatGPT, though the future of that partnership remains uncertain.