Rehan Shahid 
Jan 13, 2026
After a lot of rumours last year, tech giants Apple and Google on Monday announced a multi-year partnership for its revamped Siri coming later in 2026, which will be powered by Gemini AI.
Apple, in a statement, stated: "After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we’re excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for our users.”
The models will continue to run on Apple devices, and the company’s private cloud compute, added the company.
"Apple's decision to use Google's Gemini models for Siri shifts OpenAI into a more supporting role, with ChatGPT remaining positioned for complex, opt-in queries rather than the default intelligence layer," said Equisights Research CEO Parth Talsania.
Earlier in August 2025, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks with Google to integrate Gemini to power a new iteration of Siri. The news outlet later reported that Apple was planning to pay about $1 billion a year to use Google AI.
Interestingly, Google paid Apple billions of dollars over the years to be the default search engine in Safari, because Apple don't make their own search engine, but their users use search engines and need one. That's why both the tech giants made a partnership to bring them the best one available.
