Apple to Pay Google $1 Billion to Make Siri Smarter, Says Report

Apple is finalizing a deal with Google to use its powerful Gemini large language model (LLM) to help power a major overhaul of Siri, according to a report from Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman. The arrangement, which could see Apple paying roughly $1 billion USD ($1.41 billion CAD) annually, would represent one of the company’s most significant AI partnerships to date.

The revamped Siri experience, internally codenamed “Linwood,” is set to debut with iOS 26.4 next spring . Apple plans to leverage Google’s 1.2 trillion-parameter Gemini model to handle Siri’s summarization and planning functions — the parts of the assistant responsible for understanding complex tasks and generating responses. That’s a major leap from the 150 billion-parameter model currently used for Apple Intelligence’s cloud-base