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Apple's New Siri Will Be Powered By Google Gemini
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I sure hope we eventually have the ability to run a local model at home (think a limited version of SARAH from the show Eureka, though maybe without Fargo's voice). And it could interface with our mobile devices over a VPN. Imagine pairing that with augmented glasses. We'd still have to use commercial APIs for a lot of stuff, of course, but we wouldn't have to worry about porting our data over if we switched providers.
Guess just another failed decision after adopting Google Map as the default Map app in the early era of iOS.
Why would it matter though - once they buy access to the LLM and run it on their own servers, they wouldn't be relying on OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.
So do I, but this wouldn't be a Google service. Just because Apple will have paid to put their LLM model on their own server. There's nothing Google left in it - they've just saved millions reinventing the wheel (which they appear to be doing anyway for whatever reason - licensing payment terms I guess).
How can you say it's a "win" for Apple and then say in the same breath "it's clear that Apple isn't capable of doing this themselves" lollllllllllllll
Same in CarPlay. I can be listening to a playlist at the perfect volume, then Siri screams at me when reading a text message.
I have had Apple devices(Mac, iPad, and iPhone) since 2003 and I have never been able to use Siri. I will knowingly use AI if it makes it useful.
LOL. Been listening to this same broken record about Apple for decades and they're still here.
If Siri was the beginning of the end, then it was the song that never ended.
You’re not buying a third party or outsourcing AI without having huge compromises. It’s hilarious to see anyone cheering this on as something good. It’s a band aid at best. And inferior to googles android. For a company like Apple that has a history of having such foundations in place and known for software/hardware integration, this is really disappointing news.
Apple Intelligence. Powered by Google. lol. You can’t make this up. It’s such a major stumble.
I wouldn’t expect anything much different til iOS 27. Even then it’ll pale to what others can do. This is Apple being really desperate. Apple Intelligence backfired. Major stumbling going on.
When will Tim Cook finally step down? He's the culprit of all things going wrong with Apple the past decade.
makes sense. won't cost them a dime in reality as google pays apple a tonne to be default search engine.
It's honestly disgusting at this point. I have disabled Siri on every single Apple device I've owned for years because I have no interest in talking to my devices when I can do things faster myself without speaking aloud to the room. The whole AI bubble is about to burst as most people realize it's all fake anyway. And now Apple will just jack up the prices of all their devices again to compensate for this huge Google bill they will be paying out.
Its really pathetic that a 4 trillion dollar company needs to buy AI from its competitors. Steve would have never allowed that. Siri would have been state of the art under him or people got fired.
Yes, you are right and I am not sure what the scale of it is but I am sure it is not outlandish what everyone else is doing. Interesting to hear more about their chips. Good to see they have their own solution and are not relying as much in on Nvidia like everyone else. And not having their Ai data center up and running could be a huge reason or at least partly why Apple has not rolled out it's revised AI solution.
so I can say... Siri... is it raining outside right now?
The smarter, more capable version of Siri that Apple is developing will be powered by Google Gemini, reports Bloomberg. Apple will pay Google approximately $1 billion per year for a 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model that was developed by Google.
Siri will be able to answer more complex queries and complete more complicated tasks in and between apps. It will be closer in function to Claude and ChatGPT, though Apple is not planning a dedicated chatbot app.
Article Link: Apple's New Siri Will Be Powered By Google Gemini
apple will only do so if they can monetize it... they do not want a loss leader... has anyone made real $$$ from AI other than the chip makers???
Apple's challenge has always been Siri's identity; a step ahead as assistant-first before AI agents were hot.
It was, and still is in the same space as Google Assistant and Bixy. Not Gemini and Galaxy.
Siri's been stuck in its former shell and has been leapfrogged elsewhere. Rebrands by other companies have been a line in the sand moment for their transition to AI-first. Apple could and possibly should have done the same, had they got their LLM in order by now.
It was, and still is in the same space as Google Assistant and Bixy. Not Gemini and Galaxy.
Siri's been stuck in its former shell and has been leapfrogged elsewhere. Rebrands by other companies have been a line in the sand moment for their transition to AI-first. Apple could and possibly should have done the same, had they got their LLM in order by now.