In a move that reshapes the competitive landscape of Silicon Valley, Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) have entered into a multi-year partnership to base the next generation of Apple’s artificial intelligence on Google’s Gemini models.
The deal, announced Monday, marks a definitive victory for Google’s AI division after its Gemini 3 model captured the market's attention with superior benchmarks in reasoning and multimodal capabilities.
Under the agreement, Google’s latest models will serve as the foundation for the upcoming "Apple Intelligence" suite.
Most notably, the partnership will anchor a completely reimagined Siri, set for a phased rollout starting later this year.
Apple confirmed that after a rigorous "careful evaluation" of several competitors—reportedly including OpenAI and Anthropic—it determined that Gemini provides the most robust and capable foundation for its future "Apple Foundation Models."
The integration will specifically focus on enhancing Siri’s complex reasoning, summarization, and planning features.
While Apple will continue to use its own homegrown, smaller on-device models for personal context and simple tasks, the "heavy lifting" for web-based queries and cross-app coordination will be offloaded to a custom version of Gemini.