Apple and Google Announce Multi-Year Deal to Build Siri on Gemini Models

Apple and Google announced Monday a multi-year collaboration under which the next generation of Apple’s AI models will be based on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology, a deal that gives the iPhone maker’s long-delayed Siri overhaul a rival’s engine. The companies said in a joint statement that the models will help power “a more personalized Siri coming this year,” according to MacTech and Engadget.

“After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google’s AI technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models,” the statement said, per Engadget. The models are meant to support future Apple Intelligence features, MacTech reported, not only Siri.

Apple said its own AI features would continue to run on its devices and on Private Cloud Compute, “while maintaining Apple’s industry-leading privacy standards,” both outlets reported.

The statement disclosed no financial terms. Engadget noted a report in November that Apple would pay Google about $1 billion a year for a custom Gemini model, and MacTech attributed it to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who put it at almost $1 billion annually; both treated it as an earlier report rather than a confirmed figure.

The deal follows years in which Apple has struggled to deliver the smarter assistant it promised. Engadget noted that Apple first demonstrated a generative-AI Siri at WWDC 2024, then said in March 2025 that it was delaying a major Siri update until this year. Apple had also considered OpenAI and Anthropic, according to Engadget and MacTech, though MacTech said those discussions “didn’t pan out.”

Apple’s own models will remain at the center of the arrangement, according to the statement, which describes Gemini and Google’s cloud technology as the foundation on which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be built, MacTech reported.

Siri can currently tap ChatGPT for certain queries, Engadget reported, and neither outlet said whether that integration will change.

Neither outlet gave a more specific date for the new Siri than “this year.” The partnership links two of the largest U.S. technology companies in artificial intelligence.