# Apple deploys Gemini AI in new Siri with billion-dollar Google partnership

> Apple used WWDC to unveil the biggest overhaul of Siri in the assistant's history, and the surprise is who is powering it: Google. The revamped Siri leans on Google's Gemini through a partnership reported to be worth around a billion dollars, a striking admission that Apple would rather rent frontier AI than wait to build its own. The new assistant is designed to draw on personal context from your messages, emails, and photos, understand what is on your screen, chain together multiple commands, and take actions across apps rather than just answering trivia. It also gains a persistent chat history, more like ChatGPT than the old one-shot Siri. It is slated to ship with iOS 27 this fall to a base of over 100 million Apple-device users. The deal reshapes the assistant landscape: Apple gets a credible AI voice in front of a massive audience, Google extends Gemini's reach onto iPhones, and the line between competitors quietly blurs in service of catching up.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: Quartz · Published Sunday, August 16, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Apple used WWDC to unveil the biggest overhaul of Siri in the assistant's history, and the surprise is who is powering it: Google. The revamped Siri leans on Google's Gemini through a partnership reported to be worth around a billion dollars, a striking admission that Apple would rather rent frontier AI than wait to build its own. The new assistant is designed to draw on personal context from your messages, emails, and photos, understand what is on your screen, chain together multiple commands, and take actions across apps rather than just answering trivia. It also gains a persistent chat history, more like ChatGPT than the old one-shot Siri. It is slated to ship with iOS 27 this fall to a base of over 100 million Apple-device users. The deal reshapes the assistant landscape: Apple gets a credible AI voice in front of a massive audience, Google extends Gemini's reach onto iPhones, and the line between competitors quietly blurs in service of catching up.

## Source

[Read the full story at Quartz](https://qz.com/apple-siri-ai-google-gemini-wwdc-2026-060826)

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