Overview
- Bloomberg-sourced reports say negotiations are in the final stages, with no official confirmation yet from Apple or Google.
- The arrangement would reportedly provide Apple access to Google’s roughly 1.2 trillion‑parameter model for about $1 billion annually.
- Deployment is expected to run on Apple’s private cloud to keep user content shielded from Google, with some processing potentially handled on devices.
- Apple tested its own systems and external options from OpenAI and Anthropic before focusing on Google, which reportedly best met requirements for longer context, summaries, and multi-step tasks.
- Coverage suggests upgraded Siri capabilities could arrive as soon as next spring with iOS 26.4, while Apple continues developing a larger in‑house model beyond its current ~150‑billion‑parameter system.