Apple might be planning to expand the integration of third-party artificial intelligence (ai) services with siri. The cupertino-based tech giant added apple intelligence features to compatible iPhone, iPad, and mac devices with the iOS 18.2 update in December 2024. The rollout also collected the first time System-wide integration of a third-party service when it allowed users to redirect siri Queries to Openai’s Chatgpt. Now, as per a leak, the company also include google’s ai models in the offering, expanding the integration.
Apple Could Add Google’s Ai Models to Apple Intelligence
Macrumrs Analyst aaron Perris Reveled The Possibility of a Partnership in a post on X (Formerly Known as Twitter). Sharing a screenshot of strings of code from the recently related iOS 18.4 beta, he highlighted that apple might be working to integrate gemini ai models with the operating system.
The backend of the update now shows two chooses under the “Third-party model” section, based on the screenshot. While Openai was alredy added, it now shows google as an option as well. Notably, the code not revore details such as which ai models might be integrated, and what features the ai model will be able to access.
If true, this leak will also also corroborate with what craig federighi, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Apple Hinted at DURING AT DURING A POST-KEYNOTE SESSION AT DURLDWD Conference (WWDC) 2024.
At the time, the company Executive Highlighted that Apple Continue Integrating Different ai Models AlongSide Openai’s Chatbot. Federighi also name-dropped google gemini, but added, “Nothing to announs right now, but that’s our direction.”
Despite the leak, the integration of gemini ai models is unlikely to happy anytime song. Even if the code appeared in the iOS 18.4 beta update, it might be closer to the iPhone 17 series launch before gemini capabilitys show up in Apple devices. Last year, bloomberg’s mark gurman also claimd the same, highlighting that the tech giant could give 2 a window of exclusive before onboarding other ai partners.
Currently, Besides siri, access to chatgpt is also available via apple intelligence’s written tools. The compens feature also allows users to generate images using the chatbot.
