Apple will pay Google $1b a year for access
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From my understanding, it's essentially a "white labeled" version of Gemini that runs on Apple's servers, so no data goes to Google.
I agree and I’m the same way, but I bet they kill off the classic Siri (what we’re getting with AI turned off today).
If you are previewing features that claim you are an AI company, then you need to deliver on them. Obviously, Apple can’t do that. This is a pathetic display and an admission of its own inability.
I would tend to agree about the instability for commands. Heck, Google's own non-LLM seemed to work better for requests of Apple Music on my Home Hub. Guess we'll see how it turns out.
In a statement shared with CNBC today, Apple confirmed that Google Gemini will power the next-generation version of Siri that is slated to launch later this year.
"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 statement said.
The report explicitly mentioned that Google Gemini will power Siri, as was expected. Apple's decision to lean on Google's artificial intelligence technology should result in the revamped Siri being more capable and advanced than it otherwise would have been, as Gemini's large language model is significantly larger than Apple's own model.
The next-generation version of Siri is expected to be introduced with iOS 26.4, which will likely be released to the general public in March or April.
Apple first announced the personalized Siri features during its WWDC 2024 keynote, but last year it announced that they were delayed. The new capabilities will include better understanding of a user's personal context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls. For example, Apple showed an iPhone user asking Siri about their mother's flight and lunch reservation plans based on info from the Mail and Messages apps.
Article Link: Apple Confirms Google Gemini Will Power Next-Generation Siri This Year
And Yahoo Weather with a skin. Apple will use other people's work for years while working on their own and switch it out to an in-house solution when it works 90% as good as what they are paying others to do. This is just going to be gen 1 of LLM Siri. We may be waiting another 3+ years for Apple to come up with something as good for gen 2. And I expect a string of acquisitions and talent hires to be done between now and then.
You will be able to keep it 100% disabled as long as there is an alternative.
Steve Jobs gave us Internet Explorer as the built-in web browser on Macs for a few years.
No, no, no, that’s the best part: YOU are going to pay for it. So they’ll get both the data and the money. I bet there will be several Siri+ tiers to choose from. As they showed today, their services are growing, so obviously they want to push and accelerate this development even more, because money.
More embarrassing than Microsoft using OpenAI/ChatGPT?
