From PC Mag: Apple announced an AI partnership with Google earlier this month, and the first results of the collaboration will become available through an updated Siri next month, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.
Apple has had a tough time with Siri over the past few years. The personalized Siri it promised at WWDC 2024, giving the assistant the ability to tap into a user’s personal data or take actions across apps autonomously, has been long overdue. Following delays, the company vowed to release those new features this year.
To live up to that promise, Apple desperately needed Google’s Gemini models, Gurman says. The company’s software leadership had admitted last year that the delays were due to struggles with Siri’s underlying architecture.
All of that is in the past now. We’ll get to see demos of Gemini-powered Siri as early as the second half of February, Gurman says. Apple may not hold a special event for it, but instead show off the new Siri capabilities at a controlled media briefing in New York.
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