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Apple’s voice gets a new brain and it belongs to Google.
Apple’s next Siri update will secretly tap into Google’s Gemini AI models, according to 9to5Mac.
No announcement, no branding, just quiet integration beneath Apple’s polished surface.
It’s a striking twist:
the company that built its empire on independence will now rely on its biggest rival’s intelligence engine.
The shift
Apple has long favored privacy over power, building small on-device AI models while competitors raced ahead with cloud giants like OpenAI and Google DeepMind.
But those smaller systems can’t match the scale or sophistication of today’s large models.
So Apple’s making a trade-off, Gemini will handle advanced, cloud-based Siri tasks like summarizing messages or answering complex questions.
In short: Apple fell behind, and Google is helping it catch up.
The deal
This partnership resembles their long-running search agreement.
The one that makes Google the default on Safari and earns Apple billions.
Only now, instead of web searches, it’s intelligence itself being outsourced.
Apple will control the user experience while Gemini quietly processes the hardest requests. Users may never know when Siri’s brain switches between Apple and Google.
That opacity is intentional, Apple keeps the interface clean, Google gets the data traffic, and both profit.
The bigger play
This isn’t surrender; no, this is a strategy.
Apple knows AI is too big and too expensive to go alone. So it’s turning Siri into a kind of AI aggregator, able to tap multiple providers as needed. Gemini today, maybe OpenAI or Anthropic next.
It’s Apple’s way of staying powerful without being omniscient.
Reflection
For years, Apple sold the myth of independence… hardware, software, everything built by Apple.
Now, even its most personal interface will think using someone else’s brain.
Maybe that’s the new reality of the AI era: no company is truly self-contained.
Intelligence has become infrastructure and everyone rents a piece.
Your next Siri might sound like Apple but it’ll be thinking in Google.
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