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cpetersoyesterday at 7:34 PM5 repliesview on HN

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.


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runjakeyesterday at 9:05 PM

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."

w10-1yesterday at 11:08 PM

> "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?

Workaccount2yesterday at 9:20 PM

Apple likely wants to post-train a per-trained model, probably along with some of Google's heavily NDA'ed training techniques too.

Ninjinkayesterday at 7:47 PM

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."

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baxtryesterday at 9:17 PM

Mostly likely the wording was crafted by an artificially intelligent entity.