According to a new report, Apple is close to a deal with Google under which the iPhone maker will pay the tech giant about $1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model. bloomberg,
The move is a big step forward for Apple, which has traditionally relied on its own technology, but plans to use Google’s model as a temporary solution until its own AI becomes powerful enough, including a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.
The custom AI model’s 1.2 trillion parameters – a measure of the software’s complexity and capability – will far exceed the level of Apple’s existing model. For context, the current cloud-based version of Apple Intelligence uses 150 billion parameters, meaning Google’s model would be about eight times more complex.
Apple also considered using AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic earlier this year. After testing models from all three companies, Apple chose Grow with Google,
According to Bloomberg, the revamped Siri is expected to launch next spring. However, since launch is still a few months away, improvement plans may change.
