Apple is turning to Google to make a custom Gemini AI model to power the next version of its virtual assistant Siri for spring 2026, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on Sunday. A subsequent report from Gurman on Wednesday says Apple will pay $1 billion per year for this new 1.2 trillion parameter model.

According to the report, Apple was evaluating whether to use Google or AI competitor Anthropic for the next version of Siri. Gurman says Google offered a better financial deal. In an earlier Bloomberg report , he says Anthropic would have cost Apple $1.5 billion per year.

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This custom Gemini model will run on Apple's private cloud comput

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