Apple and Google announced a multi-year artificial intelligence partnership on Monday, covering Siri and Apple Intelligence features. The companies said Google’s Gemini models and cloud services will support Apple’s own Apple Foundation Models across its global device ecosystem.
Apple - Google Gemini partnership for new AI-powered Siri
In a joint statement, Apple and Google confirmed Gemini will power upcoming Apple Foundation Models and future Siri upgrades. The statement was published on Google’s official company blog.
Apple said it chose Google’s AI after what it called a careful evaluation of available technologies. According to the statement, Apple judged Gemini to be “the most capable foundation” for its Apple Foundation Models. The companies described the arrangement as a multi-year partnership.
The partnership covers both on-device processing and workloads handled through Apple’s Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. Apple said it will continue applying its existing privacy architecture to Apple Intelligence features that use Gemini support.
Key technical and product details
Apple said Apple Intelligence will continue to run primarily on its devices, with Private Cloud Compute used when additional capacity is needed. Gemini’s cloud capabilities will help train and operate Apple Foundation Models behind features such as Siri. The companies indicated an upgraded Siri experience is planned for release later in 2026.
- Financial terms of the Apple - Google deal remain undisclosed.
- Bloomberg previously reported Apple had discussed paying about $1 billion annually for Google AI access, without confirming a final figure.
- Bloomberg also reported Apple selected Google over Anthropic for this work, citing financial considerations as a major factor.
- Apple confirmed to CNBC that its existing agreement to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Siri remains in place.
- According to Apple, ChatGPT will continue handling certain complex queries, while Gemini supports Apple’s own system-level intelligence features.
Apple framed the setup as a distinction between internal foundation models and external connections to third-party AI services. Siri will rely on Apple Foundation Models powered with Gemini, while some queries can still be routed to ChatGPT.
Background and market context
Apple announced its integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Siri and Apple Intelligence at its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference. The company positioned ChatGPT as an optional service for broader knowledge questions, used only with explicit user permission.
Apple initially targeted a 2025 release for a major AI upgrade to Siri, according to Reuters. In March 2025, Apple said at the time some Siri improvements would be delayed to 2026, citing development timelines.
The long-running default search agreement between Apple and Google has been examined in United States antitrust proceedings. In August 2024, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Google held an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising, Reuters reported. The judge did not require Google to divest its Chrome browser or Android mobile system.
Alphabet surpassed Apple in market capitalization in January 2026 for the first time since 2019, according to CNBC, reflecting relative public market valuations at the time.
Google released its Gemini 3 model in late 2025, following earlier Gemini versions introduced in 2023 and 2024. CEO Sundar Pichai said in October 2025 that Google Cloud had signed over $1 billion in AI deals, a total he said exceeded the combined value of comparable deals from the previous two years.
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