Apple may need Google's Gemini to make Siri smart enough to compete

Apple Google iphone siri Apple's on-device AI dream is running into the hard limits of what a phone can do A hybrid Siri will route more complex requests to Google's servers – Apple hopes you won't notice By Skye Jacobs May 29, 2026, 6:15 Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Forward-looking: Apple's push to make Siri more capable is starting to look less like a purely in-house effort and more like a concession to the realities of modern AI. To close the gap, the company is expected to split Siri's workload between on-device processing and the cloud, including Google's Gemini models. Apple has spent years emphasizing the privacy benefits of keeping computation on-device.

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