Apple launched a partnership with Google to power its Foundation Models and Siri virtual assistant using Google’s Gemini AI, the two companies announced on Monday.
The partnership marks the latest major American artificial intelligence collaboration, with Google’s Gemini AI models and cloud computing serving as the new base for Apple’s Foundation Models, the AI models that currently power Apple Intelligence.
“These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year,” Google and Apple said in a joint statement. “After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google’s AI technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users.”
The companies said it would be a multiyear partnership, but provided no further information on the exact duration of the collaboration or the cost to either party.
The partnership comes as AI has become an increasingly collaborative field in the United States, competing with other countries, notably China, to bolster its AI industry. In September, semiconductor chip developer Nvidia announced a partnership with OpenAI to use its systems to power OpenAI’s infrastructure.
Apple also has a partnership with OpenAI, inked in 2024, to incorporate ChatGPT on Apple iPhone, iPad, and macOS products.
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xAI CEO Elon Musk iced the Google and Apple collaboration on Monday in an X post, calling the partnership an “unreasonable concentration of power.”
“This seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google, given that [they] also have Android and Chrome,” Musk wrote, responding to the Google announcement.
