{"id":423189,"date":"2026-01-22T16:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423189\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:12:14","slug":"apple-to-turn-siri-into-ai-chatbot-powered-by-googles-gemini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/423189\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to Turn Siri Into\u00a0AI Chatbot Powered by Google\u2019s Gemini"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a>\u00a0reportedly plans to increase the capabilities of Siri<\/a>, turning the digital assistant into an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot later this year.<\/p>\n

The chatbot will be added to the operating systems of the iPhone, iPad and Mac; will be integrated into core apps such as mail, music and photos; and will be activated by the user saying \u201cSiri\u201d or holding down the side button on the smartphone or tablet, Bloomberg reported<\/a> Wednesday (Jan. 21), citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n

The new Siri will be able to search the web, create content, generate images\u00a0and analyze files uploaded by the user, according to the report.<\/p>\n

The custom AI model powering the AI chatbot will be provided by Google<\/a>, while the user interface will be designed by Apple, the report said.<\/p>\n

Before launching the new chatbot version of Siri, Apple will release an updated version of the current digital assistant, per\u00a0the report.<\/p>\n

Apple did not immediately reply to PYMNTS\u2019 request for comment.<\/p>\n

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Apple and Google announced Jan. 12 that they had formed a partnership and that the next iteration of Apple\u2019s Foundation Models<\/a>\u00a0will be based on Google\u2019s Gemini and cloud tech.<\/p>\n

Those models will help power new features for Apple Intelligence \u2014 the company\u2019s AI system \u2014 including a more personalized version of its AI assistant, the companies said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google\u2019s AI technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and is excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for Apple users,\u201d their announcement said. \u201cApple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple\u2019s industry-leading privacy standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was reported in June that Apple was considering using AI models<\/a> from another company, rather than its own in-house models, to power Siri.<\/p>\n

That report said adopting third-party AI models could allow Apple to offer Siri features that would be competitive with the AI assistants available on Android smartphones.<\/p>\n

Earlier in June, it was reported that Apple aimed to bring an AI-powered upgrade<\/a> of Siri to market in spring 2026, after facing delays and failing to meet its original goal of fall 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple\u00a0reportedly plans to increase the capabilities of Siri, turning the digital assistant into an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[182,21808,517,168,3110,3,3300,42511,74,3301],"class_list":["post-423189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-ai-chatbots","tag-apple","tag-google","tag-google-gemini","tag-news","tag-pymnts-news","tag-siri","tag-technology","tag-whats-hot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}