Apple, like the rest of the technology companies of the moment, has released its own AI, trying to keep up. However, if you have an iPhone, or a Mac, you will notice that both Siri and Apple Intelligencethey are much worse than Gemini, Grok, ChatGPT, etc.
About two years have passed since all this began to become a reality, and the advances are not very important, so to speak. Tim Cook's company is stuck, a lot, improve Artificial Intelligence and its assistant Siriso you will have to change your plans.
Apple will rely on Google for AI
It looks like this year Siri is going to take a leap and get a little smarter. The curious thing is that Apple You are not doing everything alone: to make your assistant work better, there are using Google AI technologycalled Gemini. It sounds strange, but basically Apple takes that base and combines it with what it already does in its iPhone so that everything remains “Apple”, but more powerful.
The idea is that Siri understands better what you do, answers complicated questions without you having to explain yourself a thousand times and gives more natural answers. It is not that it is going to become Google Assistant, but that it is going to feel more useful without losing the privacy that Apple always insists on taking care of.
Even though it uses Google AI, everything still goes through the iPhone and iCloud systems, so your data doesn't fly out there. Apple wanted to move quickly with the intelligence of the phone, and using something that already works well gives them that boost without having to invent everything from scratch (although the rest of the companies, even smaller, did manage to do it on their own).
It is not yet seen on the iPhone, but when it arrives for sure you will notice that Siri understands the context betterresponds with more sense and could even anticipate what you want to do. It's not a brutal change, but it is one that makes using the assistant more comfortable on a day-to-day basis. Something that we have been waiting for a long time, and that seems to be we will see in iOS 26.4although nothing is confirmed.
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In short, Apple is adding a bit of Google technology so that Siri stops feeling clumsy and becomes really useful, but without losing its usual touch. A small step, but in the end it is noticeable when you use the phone. For now, you can continue using the Gemini assistant, since, after all, Apple still has not incorporated it, and although competition and privacy and synchronization with the ecosystem are not yet part of Apple, it is the only thing that iPhone users have.
And you, do you think Apple should create its own AI, from scratch? Or, on the contrary, don't you mind if it “buys” the base from Google if it later adapts it to Apple's system, and all the privacy and other points depend on Apple? Leave us a comment with your opinion on all this, and if it is important to you.
