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do you understand what happened to Apple..
At WWDC, Apple confirmed that Siri's cloud layer now runs on a custom Google Gemini model with 1.2 trillion parameters, licensed for roughly $1 billion a year.
Strategically, this is a reversal. The company that built its brand on privacy and vertical integration has handed the core of its AI stack to a direct competitor. The same capabilities Apple announced at WWDC 2024 and never shipped — personal context, on-screen awareness, cross-app actions — now depend on Google Cloud.
→ $250M settlement in May for marketing Siri features that didn't exist
→ debuted at WWDC 2024, delayed March 2025, ads pulled
→ Tim Cook's final keynote before stepping down September 1
→ Siri's cloud inference now runs on Google's infrastructure
Apple didn't close the AI gap. It leased it.
Pragmatic move or structural capitulation in the AI race?
At WWDC, Apple confirmed that Siri's cloud layer now runs on a custom Google Gemini model with 1.2 trillion parameters, licensed for roughly $1 billion a year.
Strategically, this is a reversal. The company that built its brand on privacy and vertical integration has handed the core of its AI stack to a direct competitor. The same capabilities Apple announced at WWDC 2024 and never shipped — personal context, on-screen awareness, cross-app actions — now depend on Google Cloud.
→ $250M settlement in May for marketing Siri features that didn't exist
→ debuted at WWDC 2024, delayed March 2025, ads pulled
→ Tim Cook's final keynote before stepping down September 1
→ Siri's cloud inference now runs on Google's infrastructure
Apple didn't close the AI gap. It leased it.
Pragmatic move or structural capitulation in the AI race?
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