Apple to revamp Siri with Google Gemini and NVIDIA partnerships

Back in March, we heard reports that Apple was looking to let the next generation of Siri work with third-party AI bots. There is new information that points toward a likely partnership with Google to build its voice assistant off a version of Gemini. The tech giant has also established a possible partnership with NVIDIA in the fray.

Based on reports by The Information, the brand is looking to shift how Siri handles large-scale cloud requests. Rather than relying strictly on its own hardware, Apple is looking to rely on Google’s Gemini AI model running on NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell B200 data center graphics chips.

This is a radical strategy change for Apple: a company famous for trying to bring every single piece of its hardware and software pipeline in-house for the sake of control. The new system means that when a user triggers a complex prompt that cannot be solved locally on an iPhone, the request will be routed directly to Google Cloud to run on a licensed version of the Gemini model.

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Originally, rumors suggested Apple might use Google’s own custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for these cloud tasks, but the decision has officially flipped to NVIDIA’s high-speed Blackwell architecture to ensure maximum performance and lower processing latency.

Nvidia reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the 'world's most powerful chip' for AI | The Verge

Despite routing personal data through a third-party cloud, Apple is aiming to lock down user privacy by enforcing a specific hardware-level security feature: confidential computing. This feature creates an isolated hardware environment that keeps the user’s data completely encrypted while it is actively being processed by the GPU. Because the data remains encrypted even during live calculations, neither Google nor NVIDIA can actually see or log the contents of the Siri prompts.

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This three-way partnership will allow the completely overhauled Siri to handle far more complex tasks. This supercharged version will be able to read live on-screen context, manage multi-step workflows across different apps, and maintain a deep memory of personal conversational history.

Consumers can expect to see the very first iteration of this smarter, Gemini-powered Siri debut this coming September alongside the launch of iOS 27 and the next-generation iPhone lineup.