🤝 Apple & Google strike big AI partnership

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Hi AI Futurists,

Apple and Google are joining forces to bring more capable AI into everyday devices, improving how people search, ask questions, and get things done while keeping privacy and usability front and center. Let’s take a look.

Here’s our agenda.

Best,
Lex Sokolin

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Apple and Google have announced a multiyear AI partnership that brings Google’s Gemini models into the core of Siri and other Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices. The move marks a clear shift for Apple, which has historically preferred to develop key technologies internally rather than rely on external platforms. The updated version of Siri uses Gemini to improve language understanding and personalization, while Apple continues to emphasize that user privacy and data protection are handled through its Private Cloud Compute infrastructure.

For Apple, the partnership accelerates its ability to deliver more capable AI experiences without waiting for in house models to reach frontier performance. It allows the company to focus on integration, reliability, and user experience while still offering state of the art intelligence. For Google, the agreement places Gemini at the center of one of the largest consumer device ecosystems in the world, significantly expanding real world usage and visibility.

More broadly, the deal reflects how the AI market is maturing. Building frontier models has become capital intensive and specialized, while value is increasingly created at the layer where AI meets daily behavior. Rather than competing across every layer of the stack, companies are starting to specialize and partner. Some industry figures, including Elon Musk, have raised questions about how much influence this gives Google, but the larger signal is clear: AI is moving from a race for ownership to a race for distribution and usefulness.

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