Apple finally admitted defeat on proprietary AI development while officially adopting Google Gemini for Siri. Cupertino told CNBC that Mountain View offers the most capable tech foundation available. They will rent a customized 1.2 trillion parameter model to handle complex decision-making, validating leaks about a billion-dollar annual contract to fix the lagging assistant.
The revamped architecture splits duties between local and cloud processing. While on-device chips handle basic knowledge retrieval, heavy lifting like query planning gets offloaded to Google servers. Siri uses this external brain to decide whether to run web searches, access personal calendars, or execute commands inside third-party apps via App Intents.
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