Report: LLM-Siri could be “powered by gemini”

Apple seems to be interested in the purchase of a large voice model (Large Language Model, LLM) in Siri, which does not come from the group itself. After speculation from July that the iPhone manufacturer can use the Anthropic shelf, a Bloomberg report now says that negotiations are underway-albeit “early”. According to this, Gemini could serve to implement the long-awaited LLM-Siri, which is not expected before next year. Meanwhile, Apple is losing more and more employees in their own AI team.

Chatbot plus voice assistant not so easy

LLM-Siri means that the voice assistant should become significantly more discussed, i.e. also allows deeper dialogues. That would be more than Apple is currently officially planning: So far, only a context-sensitive siri has been announced, which can access all iPhone data of the user and also also serves apps for the first time and read out the screen. An LLM-Siri would combine chatbot skills with the usual assistance functions, for example for the smart home, alarms or listening to music and podcasts. Technically simple, this is by no means how you can see Amazons Alexa+. That comes, as the New York Times writes, a brain transplant And sometimes leads to user confusion because things run completely differently than in the rigid command structure of old assistance systems.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is now considering third parties of his AI system. Google is said to have been agreed by Cupertino itself, said people informed. The search engine giant then started to train a model that could run on Apple’s servers. However, it will take at least “weeks” before a decision is made as to whether Apple changes from internal models to a partner. Neither Google nor Apple commented on the report. Apple is to last test its first model internally with a trillion parameters-the Apple models currently only have a maximum of 150 billion parameters.

“Linwood” vs. “Glenwood”

In addition to the conversations with Google, there were also discussions with Anthropic (as mentioned) and Openai. There you have long been a partner with chatt, Apple wants to integrate GPT-5 into the iOS, iPados and MacOS operating system soon. Users can select whether inquiries go directly to Openai, but this can also be turned off by default. Apple had massively rebuilt his AI team and brought the vision-pro boss Mike Rockwell into the team. Ki boss John Giannandrea, who by the way came from Google, was partially disempowered. But Rockwell does not seem to be able to get the problems under control – at least not with the employee exits.

Various persons, including the management level of the Apple Foundation Model team, emerge to META due to extremely high earning opportunities. The LLM-Siri is supposed to carry various code names: “Linwood” is a variant with Apple’s model and “Glenwood” one that uses external technology. Anthropic is said to have been long Apple’s favorite candidate, but the AI ​​start-up with his model Claude apparently demanded too much money. So Apple searched for replacement. Google has long been Apple’s long-time search partner and rinses the group $ 20 billion into the till year after year. However, a cartel process is currently underway in the United States that could stop this deal.