Overview
- Multiple outlets report the companies are finalizing terms for Apple to license a custom Gemini instance for roughly $1 billion per year.
- The Google model would run on Apple’s servers, with requests processed inside Private Cloud Compute to keep user data from Google.
- The revamped assistant is targeted for spring 2026, likely in iOS 26.4, though plans could still shift and neither company has confirmed details.
- Gemini would handle Siri’s summarizer and planner reasoning, while other features continue on Apple’s in‑house models.
- Apple casts the arrangement as interim, is developing an approximately 1‑trillion‑parameter cloud model, and previously tested options from OpenAI and Anthropic with no public co‑branding planned.