Apple and Google Gemini Confirmed Partnership for Siri and Apple Intelligence

If you are Apple fans like we are, you probably still wait for the Siri upgrade Apple promised back in 2024. Apple positioned it as a major step for Apple Intelligence, but the update has not arrived yet.

Earlier, Apple confirmed a partnership with OpenAI to integrate GPT into parts of Apple Intelligence. Now, new information shows that Apple has also chosen Google’s Gemini as a foundation for Siri and Apple Intelligence. That decision brings Apple and Google into an unexpected AI partnership.

Apple and Google Confirm Partnership

Apple and Google officially confirmed the partnership in January 2026. Both companies announced a multi-year agreement under which Google’s Gemini models will serve as the foundation for Apple Intelligence and the next generation of Siri.

Joint Statement: Apple and Google have entered into a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a…

— News from Google (@NewsFromGoogle) January 12, 2026

According to the joint statement, Apple chose Gemini after internal testing and evaluation. Apple stated that Google’s technology offers the most capable base for large-scale AI features. In simple terms, Apple looked at the options and decided that Gemini could handle the workload Siri clearly could not. Pride took a short coffee break.

Apple emphasized that it will keep control over the user experience, privacy, and system integration. They also confirmed that Gemini will run through Apple’s infrastructure, not Google’s consumer services. The company repeated its usual promise about privacy. Still, some users have already expressed doubts.

cok degil uc sene once apple, cookieless web ayagina privacy sandbox’ta guvercin metaforlu modeller sunan google’a karsi boyle reklamla savas acmisti

simdi ayni google’i sistemine isliyor :)

ne oldu apple privacy mahremiyet gizlilik vs.. https://t.co/5FhDHmTb0v pic.twitter.com/MfYLBTZK3j

— onur ozcan (@oozn) January 12, 2026

Neither company shared technical details, pricing terms, or a precise rollout schedule. Apple confirmed only that Gemini will support future Apple Intelligence features, including the long-awaited Siri upgrade. That leaves many questions unanswered, but the core point is that Apple decided not to wait for a perfect in-house solution and picked a proven AI model instead.

Were There Hints of This Deal?

Yes, and not just one. This deal did not appear out of nowhere. Reports about Apple and Google discussing Gemini surfaced several times before the official confirmation, and the story repeated often enough to stop sounding accidental.

• The first serious reports surfaced in August 2025, when Bloomberg stated that Apple had begun discussions with Google about using Gemini as the foundation for a revamped Siri. According to the report, Apple searched for an external AI model that could support large-scale reasoning, context awareness, and assistant-level tasks faster than its internal models.

BREAKING: Apple is now in exploratory discussions with Google about using Gemini to power a revamped version of Siri. https://t.co/RzHQRDISIP

— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) August 22, 2025

• In November 2025, those reports became more specific. Multiple outlets reported that Apple and Google discussed a multi-year licensing agreement worth approximately $1 billion per year. The same reports claimed that Google would provide Apple with a custom Gemini model, trained specifically for Apple’s needs and significantly larger than Apple’s existing Siri models.

NEW: Apple is planning to use a custom 1.2 trillion parameter Google Gemini model to help power the new Siri next year. The iPhone maker will be paying the search giant roughly $1 billion annually for it. Details on the partnership here https://t.co/TPbbJ9QQ4p

— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) November 5, 2025

• Everything became official in January 2026, when Apple and Google confirmed the partnership. Both companies stated that Gemini will serve as a foundation for Apple Intelligence and the next generation of Siri. Apple did not deny earlier reports about scale, scope, or cost.

What Siri and Apple Intelligence Features Could This Affect?

So far, Apple has shared very few technical details. The company confirmed the partnership but did not explain exactly how Gemini will integrate into Siri, which features will rely on it, or how much will change for iPhone users at launch.

Still, based on Apple’s own statements, earlier Apple Intelligence announcements, and confirmed reports about the scope of the deal, it is possible to outline which areas this partnership is most likely to affect. Here is what stands out:

• Apple confirmed that Gemini will support the next generation of Siri. That suggests improvements in natural language understanding, multi-part questions, and follow-up requests. Siri should better understand context across apps such as Messages, Mail, and Calendar. This is the version of Siri Apple promised in 2024 and quietly postponed later.
• Apple Intelligence already includes summaries for notifications, emails, and messages. Reports suggest that Gemini will assist with more complex summarization tasks, especially where long or mixed content appears.
  

  

• Apple previously said that the new Siri will understand personal context and act across multiple apps. Gemini’s role likely helps Siri connect information from different sources and respond with a single, coherent answer. Asking about a flight, a meeting, and a message thread in one sentence should no longer confuse Siri.
• Apple demonstrated Siri features that respond to what appears on the screen. That includes questions about content in apps, documents, or web pages. Gemini’s language and reasoning capabilities likely support this behavior, especially when Siri needs to interpret what the user sees rather than rely on a fixed command.
  

  

• Apple positioned the new Siri as an assistant that handles multi-step tasks. That includes planning, reminders, and chained actions across apps. Gemini’s involvement points to better handling of these requests, where Siri previously stopped after step one and politely gave up.
  

  

Final Thoughts

For now, everything follows a familiar Apple pattern. Apple confirmed the partnership, shared the headline idea, and stopped there. Detailed explanations usually arrive closer to release, and this case does not look different. That is all we officially know at the moment.

Of course, many users want more information. Still, there is a positive angle here. Apple clearly chose not to push this update alone. Instead, it turned to Google, a company with real experience in large-scale AI systems. Outsourcing the AI foundation does not weaken the platform. It increases the chance that the update finally meets expectations.

As for privacy concerns, we do not share them. Privacy and data processing sit at the core of Apple’s identity, not as a marketing slogan but as a long-standing policy. So there is no reason to expect a sudden change in principles now. So we wait. And if that combination does not deliver results, then Siri truly has bigger issues.