- Apple has partnered with Google to unleash the kraken with a revamped Siri with natural language support and contextual awareness.
- This brings Siri head-to-head with many other AI assistant including Google Gemini itself.
- Gemini LLM will be powering Apple's foundation models and ultimately, the various AI features that the Cupertino giant has on-board.
Apple has officially confirmed that Google Gemini-powered Siri is coming later this year after careful evaluation. This comes as a joint statement from Apple and Google signifying their growing partnership and business ties, especially with the latest Gemini LLM underpinning Apple’s language models. Here’s the tee!
What Gemini-powered Siri means for Apple users and AI features
Cupertino-based giant Apple made it official that its upcoming Siri version will use Google’s Gemini LLM models. The tech giant evaluated Google Gemini to ascertain its performance and found out it is the most capable foundation that Apple would need to run its foundation models, unlocking potentially new experiences for the users, including AI search and contextual awareness that it pitched during the WWDC 2025.
This is a multi-year partnership that should put both Apple and Google on a path to AI supremacy. Google has already topped benchmarks with its Gemini models, and I think it has evolved a lot and is much better than OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In fact, Google has been making sure Gemini is available as a paid version to users using bundled services such as Reliance Jio in India.
So what changed?
It’s quite obvious that you, as a user, would want to know what has changed. Google’s Gemini is already powering Samsung’s Galaxy AI, and we don’t need a lot of words to describe what makes Samsung phones better.
Cut to now, Apple iPhones, iPads, and Macs will get their hands on Google Gemini as well, which adds power to their AI features, and Siri is just the stepping stone towards their AI strategy.
New and improved Siri will arrive as a part of the iOS 26.4 update set for public release in March or April, but do cross your fingers. This will make Siri contextually aware and able to comprehend natural language support better than ever. The best thing is, the changes will occur through Apple ecosystems, so whether you are using Siri on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, you will be able to use the revamped Siri features. There are deeper per-app controls, personal context, on-screen awareness, and more capabilities.
Moreover, the added strong foundation of LLMs will allow Apple to reach an epitome in terms of its lineup of Apple Intelligence (AI) features. As a part of the new agreement, these AI features will run on either user’s devices or on an Apple private secure cloud to protect users’ data.
