Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What is confirmed, what is reported, and what has not happened The partnership is a year old in intent, three months old in detail. Apple and Google announced a multi-year arrangement on 12 January 2026, per CNBC, making Google's Gemini models the foundation for a rebuilt Siri and the next generation of Apple Intelligence. WWDC, 8 June 2026, is where the architecture was shown. Apple unveiled the rebuilt assistant — Siri AI — running on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Google Gemini model hosted inside Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Requests are routed across three tiers. Simple requests stay on-device on Apple's own foundation models. Moderately complex requests go to Apple's Private Cloud Compute servers. The heaviest reasoning routes to the custom Gemini model running on Google Cloud on…
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