In a massive shift in the artificial intelligence landscape, tech giants Apple and Google officially announced a multi-year partnership on Monday, January 12, 2026. Under this landmark agreement, Apple will integrate Google’s Gemini AI models and cloud infrastructure to serve as the technological backbone for its next generation of AI features, including a completely overhauled Siri.
According to a joint statement, Apple determined after “careful evaluation” that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for its upcoming Apple Foundation Models. This move signals a significant strategic pivot for Apple, which had been utilizing OpenAI’s ChatGPT as a temporary solution while struggling to develop its own in-house generative models to a competitive standard.
The deal, which is reportedly worth approximately $1 billion per year, will see the 1.2 trillion-parameter Gemini 3 model powering Siri’s most complex tasks, such as contextual understanding, summarization, and multi-step task planning. Despite the heavy reliance on Google’s “brain power,” Apple has emphasized that the system will maintain its strict privacy standards by running the models on Apple’s own Private Cloud Compute servers.
This setup ensures that user data remains isolated from Google’s broader ecosystem while giving Siri the intelligence needed to compete with modern AI assistants. While Apple confirmed that its existing integration with ChatGPT will remain active for certain “world knowledge” queries, the Google partnership is now the primary engine for the future of Apple Intelligence. The revamped, Gemini-powered Siri is expected to officially debut in the spring of 2026 as part of the iOS 26.4 update.
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