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Google Confirms Gemini-Powered Siri Coming Later This Year

sherwinzadeh said:
I actually asked Gemini yesterday if it's excited to be working with Siri and this was the response:
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Gemini said:
While Siri will still be the "face" you talk to on your iPhone, I (Gemini) am essentially becoming the "brain" behind her most complex thoughts. Here is how our "collaboration" is rolling out this year
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I probably shouldn’t be surprised by this… but something about the confident first-person rhetoric is a little too reminiscent of HAL and other frightening sci-fi predictions. Let’s hope all the AI nay sayers are actually right on this one, and we needn’t be too worried!
 
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vertsix said:
The massive failure of Siri and the delays, ultimately resulting in Apple caving and doing business with direct competitor #1.
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Why bother with AI or a new Siri when you’ve got the awesome Vision Pro? 😈

Some people actually thought this nonsense would be a massive hit, just like the iPad and iPhone. 😂
Even at half price? No way.

But let’s all just be grateful to Google for the new Gemini Siri.
 
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The wording is really interesting. They are a "cloud" provider but are providing "foundation models" which are on-device for on-device ai.

So it's likely Siri will still mostly run on-device which is great. If they do have to resort to cloud compute for bigger tasks it likely doesn't matter if they use Apple's private cloud compute because google made their own version of that shortly after it was announced which they'll use instead.
 
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DocMultimedia said:
Will they show a prerecorded commercial of a young woman asking Siri to do stuff? 🤣
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I updated this old Apple ad using AI to replace the original iPhone 16 Pro with an iPhone 17 Pro.

Ready to go....

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k1121j said:
10-1 it’s gonna be Siri”beta” when they release it.

I’m also so excited to see what devices this new Siri won’t work on like my 8 HomePods, 5 Apple TV’s, 2 laptops, Mac mini, 3 iPads it will be so soothing to have a intermittent Siri experience depending on what device hears my request.

Guess it will be the same as usual if that’s the case.
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If it’s anything like Claude Cowork, it will be amazing. But I really wished Apple went Anthropic.
 
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Vaporware again !!?????? I think the iPhone 18 will have 16GB of memory in order to run whatever their vaporware is named.

Could make for interesting times for fraud speciality lawyers for those that bought iPhone 15 maybe, iPhone 16 definitely and probably iPhone 17.

Maybe Tim Cook bailed so the play "put the pin on the donkey" lands on the new guy.
 
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robprins said:
Its gotta be 'Private Cloud Compute' - can't see it any other way with Apple's privacy focus.
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This will likely be a user choice and could limit personal context, unless the LLM gets a bunch of personal data sent to it every single time an inquiry is made (not practical).

I'm a heavy Google user and have gotten used to giving up some privacy as a trade-off when using their products/services. This will likely be something we have decide on when using AI SIRI as well.

There might be an opportunity to blend local on-device AI with Private Cloud Compute given that Apple has a lot of local AI horsepower available in its chips. Unfortunately, you really need a lot of RAM available locally to make the most of AI and Apple isn't going to ship 32GB+ iPhones anytime soon.
 
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I think this is a great move by Apple. Siri is the face, the front, the interface. Would be great if the users can choose which engine they want to run underneath. Some people prefer privacy, some need power and speed, some may have other preferences whatsoever. This way you can switch if your needs change or if one company gets behind.
 
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"Make a calendar appointment based on the messages I'm looking at right now" -- that is all i want. I don't know how many times everything needed for a calendar appointment is right there is a message or in an email but Siri just isn't smart enough assistant to handle such a very basic task.

If this fixes that, great. Just make Siri useful at the most obvious things, please, and FFS.
 
k1121j said:
10-1 it’s gonna be Siri”beta” when they release it.

I’m also so excited to see what devices this new Siri won’t work on like my 8 HomePods, 5 Apple TV’s, 2 laptops, Mac mini, 3 iPads it will be so soothing to have a intermittent Siri experience depending on what device hears my request.

Guess it will be the same as usual if that’s the case.
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Definitely. I'll probably just unplug these HomePod Minis if Apple ignores them. And this won't help anyone on any of the older phones I've handed down.

And I still think it's funny I immediately understood their wording way back when they originally said "in the coming year" because I know the sneaky way they talk by now. You must interpret them extremely literally and in the most generous way possible. That clearly meant December 31st 2026 for the first betas to be released.
 
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Also I wouldn't exactly call this confirmation. They're just repeating the exact same talking points they already made with Apple in the initial statement. Google may be ready but they don't actually have any insight or control over Apple's timeline. Apple certainly would not let Google tell anyone it is not happening this year, for example, were that the case.
 
Anything is better than the near-worthless Siri which hasn't changed much since it was introduced 15 years ago by Apple (after being bought by Apple in 2010.)
 
vertsix said:
Jobs would've never allowed this. This was a clear mismanagement and lack of vision of Tim Cook and everyone involved with Siri. As an engineer and if I were to be an engineering manager at Apple, I would clean house entirely.
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Yeah, in my opinion, and maybe my vision is closer to what Steve would’ve done, Apple should focus on developing a good in-house model (or buying the model if they cannot train one), and optimizing it for local execution.

I guess it’s already a bit late to jump into the IA competition, so maybe they will have to rely on other models, but they could use one as the base for their new Siri and build on top of that, sort of what they did with OS X. Then optimize it to run locally and using both the NPU and the Neural Accelerators.

The downside of this is… there are a lot of Macs still with 8GB of RAM that would be really pissed off if they cannot run the new Siri…
 
CalMin said:
This will likely be a user choice and could limit personal context, unless the LLM gets a bunch of personal data sent to it every single time an inquiry is made (not practical).

I'm a heavy Google user and have gotten used to giving up some privacy as a trade-off when using their products/services. This will likely be something we have decide on when using AI SIRI as well.

There might be an opportunity to blend local on-device AI with Private Cloud Compute given that Apple has a lot of local AI horsepower available in its chips. Unfortunately, you really need a lot of RAM available locally to make the most of AI and Apple isn't going to ship 32GB+ iPhones anytime soon.
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I would trust this more if Apple just did it all on there servers
 
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sherwinzadeh said:
I actually asked Gemini yesterday if it's excited to be working with Siri and this was the response:
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As I stated before and coupled with the fact that Apple’s new head of Apple Intelligence is the guy who was the leader of the Gemini group while at Google, Apple Intelligence and Siri are nothing more than skins for Google Gemini with Apple privacy baked in.

This is proof positive that Apple has capitulated in ever developing an in-house LLM the likes of Gemini or Claude or ChatGPT AND they are now locked out of ever buying one of those companies because of costs. They could have bought Anthropic years ago or Mistral for that matter when they were startups and cheap to buy. This was the greatest blunder of Tim Apple’s career as CEO. That and the Apple Car.
 
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ThailandToo said:
If it’s anything like Claude Cowork, it will be amazing. But I really wished Apple went Anthropic.
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I would like to see in my Macs something similar to Perplexity's Personal Computer, but running on local LLM models (based on Gemma 4) and free.
 
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In 2026, Googpple will introduce Sirimini. And you'll see why 2026 may or may not be like "1984".
 
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