- Bloomberg reports that Apple is looking at Gemini to be able
- The best Apple Intelligence bits are still delayed until possibly 2026
- There is no confirmation of any company, and the report put discussions in the early stages
Apple’s efforts to deliver the most intelligent intelligence of Siri and Apple Complete that promised us “in the next year” could obtain an impulse of an unlikely third party if the latest Bloomberg report is true. According to reports, the iPhone manufacturer is in exploratory conversations in the initial stage about the integration of Gemini in Siri.
There are not many details beyond that, although Mark Gurman of Bloomberg argues that the change to these Google chats occurred after Apple could not reach the financial terms with Anthrope (Maker of Claude AI).
The possibility that Apple uses the much more successful generative AI of Gemini and one of its models (Gemini Pro, Flash, Lite?) To bring the conversational intelligence that is missing in Siri would immediately transform the digital assistant of almost 15 years of Apple into a more capable tool, but would also mean that Apple is giving the control in what is a key digital weapons.
How we get here
While working with third parties has always been part of the Apple Intelligence strategy, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook and the company’s development leadership, have never mentioned the ingestion of the generative AI models of another person. It is also a fact that Apple Intelligence deployment has not gone exactly according to the plan.
In the Techradar conversation on WWDC 2025 with the Senior Vice President of Apple software engineering, Craig Federight, who now also directs the development efforts of AI of Apple, explained why the company had not delivered Apple’s intelligence and a smarter Siri in time. After fighting for architecture V1 to function as they would like, Apple had the decision to make:
“… fundamentally, we found that the limitations of architecture V1 did not lead us to the level of quality that we knew that our clients needed and expected.” He added: “As soon as we realized that […] We let the world know that we will not be able to get that out, and that we were going to continue working really changing to the new architecture and freeing something. “
However, Gurman argues that Apple is not yet completely committed to the use of its own architecture and models and will soon make the decision on whether or not to subcontract a third party like Google for at least some of the necessary intelligence. Again, the discussions described are in the early stages. And whatever comes from them, assuming that they exist, it is unlikely that they have an impact on the next launch of iOS 26, which presents a handful of Apple intelligence updates, but virtually none of Siri.
Far from strangers
Apple and Google are already search partners (Google is Safari’s predetermined search engine), and in Apple’s visual intelligence, where you can choose to use Google to search in the captured images (or you can ask Openai’s chatgpt about them).
Even so, Gemini within Siri would mark an important turning point for Apple and the admission that it simply does not live up to the task of competing in the sphere of AI, at least not at the level of an openai, anthropic, perplexity or Google.
However, this approach is not unknown; Microsoft’s co -pilot is essentially a chatgpt rescue (although there are questions if Microsoft will continue to get access to the best OpenI models).
Even so, Apple put a lot of effort and marketing in Apple Intelligence. The question is, can it be called that if a large part is driven by Google?
We contacted Apple and Google to comment. Google had no comments. We will update this story if Apple responds.
