Get ready for a Siri glow-up! This Monday, Apple revealed a landmark multi-year deal to power its revamped Siri with Google's Gemini AI models, marking a new chapter in the AI assistant game 🚀
The partnership deepens the duo's alliance in the AI era and bolsters Alphabet's challenge against OpenAI. For Google, it's a major vote of confidence beyond powering Samsung's Galaxy AI.
Apple's move unlocks access to over 2 billion active devices worldwide, giving Gemini a huge playground to showcase its smarts.
In late 2024, Apple had added ChatGPT to Siri, tapping OpenAI for complex questions. While that integration stays in place, this new deal shifts Siri's core intelligence layer to Gemini 🤖
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to X to warn about an 'unreasonable concentration of power' and touted his own AI startup, xAI, which is racing to build foundational models of its own.
Industry insiders say Apple's choice sent OpenAI into a 'code red' last year, accelerating its roadmap. Analysts like Parth Talsania at Equisights Research note that ChatGPT will now focus on opt-in deep dives while Gemini handles the everyday queries.
Apple has faced its share of AI hurdles – Siri's long-overdue upgrade, leadership changes, and a tepid launch of generative features have kept users waiting.
This deal also builds on a years-long arrangement that makes Google the default search engine on Apple devices, a relationship that drives tens of billions in revenue for Apple each year.
News of the partnership helped lift Alphabet's market cap above 4 trillion dollars on Monday, as its stock surged by 65% last year on AI optimism 📈
Google assures users that Apple Intelligence will run on-device and in Private Cloud Compute with the same strong privacy safeguards 🔒
With Siri's 2026 refresh set for later this year, the AI assistant race is heating up. What new features are you most excited to try? Let us know! ✨
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