Remember those rumors about how Apple could team up with Google, and use a custom Gemini AI model to power the upcoming upgrades to Siri? Well, it looks like that might well be happening, with Bloomberg reporting that Apple is now planning to pay Google $1 billion a year for an "ultrapowerful 1.2 trillion parameter artificial intelligence model."

We've heard reports about the possibility of this happening, but at the time, Apple had yet to make a decision on which AI company it would be partnering with. Speculation has focused on Google, Anthropic and ChatGPT-creators OpenAI — the latter of which already has a partnership with Apple, answering questions and performing tasks that Siri can't handle on its own.

Now, "following an extensive evaluation period," it seems that Apple and Google

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