Apple will reportedly pay Google $1 billion a year to use parts of its Gemini artificial intelligence models in the upcoming revamped version of Siri, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Following an earlier report that revealed Apple’s plans to integrate Google’s Gemini technology into Siri’s backend, Gurman now says the two companies are finalising an agreement that will give Apple access to Google’s 1.2 trillion-parameter AI model — technology said to be far more advanced than Apple’s current systems.
The deal will see Apple rely on Google’s AI to help power a major Siri overhaul, expected to debut with iOS 26.4 next spring. The Gemini models will reportedly handle key parts of Siri’s query planning and summarisation, while a new knowledge search system could also use Google’s models to improve how Siri understands and answers general knowledge questions.
Apple will run the Gemini models on its own Private Cloud Compute servers, ensuring no user data is shared externally, the report says. Despite Google’s extensive role, Apple will continue to market Siri as Apple-developed technology, powered and secured by its own infrastructure.
The arrangement mirrors a strategy already used by Samsung, whose Galaxy AI features are partly based on Google’s Gemini platform.