Comment by runjake
3 days ago
Apple has seemingly confirmed that the Gemini models will run under their Private Cloud Compute and so presumably Google would not have access to Siri data.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/12/apple-google-fo...
Neither Apple's nor Google's announcement says Siri will use Gemini models. Both announcements say, word for word, "Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models". I don't know what that means, but Apple and Google's marketing teams must have crafted that awkward wording carefully to satisfy some contractual nuance.
Direct quote from Google themselves:
"Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple's industry-leading privacy standards."
This clarifies nothing?
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Apple likely wants to post-train a per-trained model, probably along with some of Google's heavily NDA'ed training techniques too.
> "Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models"
Beyond Siri, Apple Foundation Models are available as API; will Google's technologies thus also be available as API? Will Apple reduce its own investment in building out the Foundation models?
Check again: https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2010760810751017017?s=20
"These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri coming this year."
I see what you mean, though I think “these models” refers to Apple’s Foundation Models, which “will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology.” I guess it depends on wrist “based” means.
Mostly likely the wording was crafted by an artificially intelligent entity.