Apple will use Gemini models and Google Cloud technology to power its Apple Intelligence features, including a “more personalized Siri” it said.
The two companies have agreed to a “multi-year collaboration” according to a 96-word statement published on Monday – declining to comment on the financial details of the deal.
“Apple determined that Google's Al technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users,” per the statement.
“Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple's industry-leading privacy standards,” it adds.
Back in 2024, Apple signed a partnership with OpenAI to integrate some ChatGPT features into Siri – leading Elon Musk to comment that it was “patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your privacy.”
Apple's decision to partner with Google comes after a major AI leadership shakeup at Apple in December 2025, that saw it poach former Google engineering chief Amar Subramanya – who had only recently left Google for Microsoft.
Apple AI - powered by Google
Apple has been quietly chipping away at its own AI efforts.
In June 2024, Apple said that it would be using its own three-billion-parameter on-device language model, and a larger server-based language model available via its Private Cloud Compute on Apple silicon, to underpin the planned majority of users’ AI-augmented requests across its devices.
(It clarified this after inking a partnership with OpenAI in 2024: calls to OpenAI would only be used for more general “world-knowledge” questions that its task-specific LLMs couldn't handle, it said at the time.)
In 2023, it open-sourced several AI tools including a library for “large-scale deep learning models” running on the public cloud and a framework for machine learning on Apple silicon. It also released an open-weights video generation model late in 2025.
Clearly however, whether it can’t get the hardware capacity to meet future need, or the software right from the model down, it’s turned to its biggest rival in the smartphone space to plug the gap; a huge win for Google.
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