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Apple plans to use a 1.2 trillion-parameter artificial intelligence model developed by Alphabet's Google to help power a revamp of its Siri voice assistant, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.

After an evaluation, the companies are finalising a deal that would have Apple pay about $1 billion a year for access to Google's technology, the report said.

The iPhone maker will use Google's Gemini model as a stopgap until its own systems are ready, Bloomberg reported. The model's 1.2 trillion parameters, a measure of AI model complexity, would dwarf Apple's current systems.

Siri has historically been less capable than Alexa and Google Assistant at handling complex, multi-step requests and integrating with third-party apps.

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