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Siri AI is NOT Google Gemini
While Apple and Google did work together to make new foundational Apple Intelligence models, saying Siri AI is Gemini isn’t quite right. Patrick Holland sets the story straight. #wwdc #googlegemini #ai #siri #appleintelligence
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@Rioske
June 11, 2026 at 6:29 pm
You don’t fool anybody, Apple deceived people recently, even Apple lost a class action because their AI ads were a scam.
@jc5604
June 11, 2026 at 6:32 pm
Show us on the doll where the AI ad hurt you…
You don’t have to be “fooled” lol you can just look at the models. If you’re smart enough… not sure based on your comment lololol
@TechOs19
June 11, 2026 at 7:25 pm
@jc5604😂
@Rioske
June 11, 2026 at 6:34 pm
Apple intelligence at front: 🤡
Apple intelligence at backstage: Google Gemini 👌🏻😏
Only with a new icon but the same UI
@Forensist
June 11, 2026 at 6:37 pm
So, it is Gemini disguised as Siri, right? 😂
@a1yca7z
June 11, 2026 at 7:50 pm
pretty much its just a gemini LLM that apple has paid google for and integrated it into their own services so it is in fact just Gemini and the private compute stuff is your data going to a google server thats restricted and encrypted in some form to prevent access to the data
@Digital-_-Spirit
June 11, 2026 at 6:55 pm
So in software engineering terms, Apple used the Google Gemini “framework” to build the new Siri?
If this analogy is accurate, then Google Gemini is functioning similarly to how the .net framework functions in Windows apps 🤔
@mad-dog_gamer
June 11, 2026 at 6:58 pm
I’ve been using Gemini some because I can tell it to read the page without taking a screenshot and then running it through another app so they can read it to me so it has been more convenient for my dyslexia but I had another way it just took more steps and lots and lots of screenshots but yesterday my Gemini wasn’t working for some reason and I had to Google it and apparently the error code was common so back to the old way I’m annoyed
@lookerla69
June 11, 2026 at 7:01 pm
And you believe everything they tell you
@braskabani8011
June 11, 2026 at 7:25 pm
Iphone is pure android lol. Screen is made by samsung and their ai by google
@jamesmiculka
June 11, 2026 at 7:31 pm
Showing of Siri the other day was like watching the 2024 Google I/0
@nocturnus009
June 11, 2026 at 7:33 pm
Looks at all of those, AFM AppleJacks white papers?!?!
@Gabriel23-23
June 11, 2026 at 7:52 pm
They are lying it is powered by gemini
@kbrownsr2020
June 11, 2026 at 8:00 pm
I’ve never seen someone hate google so much 😂
@williamdiaz7965
June 11, 2026 at 8:09 pm
It’s Gemini through and through otherwise Apple wouldn’t be licensing access for $1Billion per year.
@Adrian-k6p9w
June 11, 2026 at 8:09 pm
Lol he must work at the white house.. lies
@HJT0000
June 11, 2026 at 8:13 pm
Why is CNET bias towards Apple and hates Google?
@johnboy8705
June 11, 2026 at 8:15 pm
We know it’s not, but we know it was made by Google using Gemini to train Apple models. So essentially it is a Gemini.
@anthonyc7407
June 11, 2026 at 8:19 pm
Typical Apple fanboy trying to justify how great Apple is when they clearly are using Gemini
@thanksbetotap
June 11, 2026 at 8:22 pm
Gemini is the base model that is being diffused from. These people have zero clue how AI is trained, and they’re completely misunderstanding what Apple said at the press event.
@theyoutuberID
June 11, 2026 at 8:22 pm
Apple should have branded Siri with iGemini 😂
@-DM
June 11, 2026 at 8:27 pm
Apple worked with Google, they took Gemini and customized it for the Apple ecosystem, it is a version of Gemini.
@videobiker9131
June 11, 2026 at 8:27 pm
But, can you SHUT SIRI OFF??? That’s all I want to know.
@greg5023
June 11, 2026 at 8:31 pm
👎
@rendyfaceold
June 11, 2026 at 8:51 pm
Bro sarcastic, because apple have best model until gemini help
@Liwaaaah
June 11, 2026 at 9:23 pm
yall seem inebriated
@alandav8572
June 12, 2026 at 12:34 pm
I’m sorry, That forehead is way too distracting
@kwasigentleman5051
June 12, 2026 at 12:43 pm
So, what exactly is Google Gemini contributing to Apple’s AI ecosystem and Siri experience? If you’re wondering why the partnership matters, try comparing today’s AI-enhanced Siri with the older version. The difference becomes much clearer. Google Gemini brings more advanced language understanding, better reasoning, and the ability to handle complex requests more naturally than traditional voice assistants. These improvements help Siri provide more useful, conversational, and context-aware responses. Whether directly or indirectly, the integration of advanced AI models raises the overall quality of the user experience. If you don’t appreciate the value Gemini brings, go back and use the old Siri for a while—you’ll quickly notice the limitations that users had to deal with before the recent advancements in AI.
@Young_Dab
June 12, 2026 at 1:23 pm
Don’t talk to Bridget like that.
@eddierubio2796
June 12, 2026 at 1:38 pm
But it is
@kurikuraconkuritas
June 12, 2026 at 2:11 pm
at the very end you destroy your own argument. apple is using gemini models, you can’t just ignore that important detail
@mrvn780
June 12, 2026 at 2:17 pm
More confused than before actually
@lemuelcubase
June 12, 2026 at 2:24 pm
“Gemeni doundation modelsh” is hilarious
@Groaznicul
June 12, 2026 at 2:26 pm
Rage-bate
@clanholmes
June 12, 2026 at 2:28 pm
Difference first looks at your device . ✔ Google supports Apple Intelligence by providing Gemini models under a multi‑year partnership
✔ Google supports Apple developers by integrating Gemini into Xcode and Apple’s Foundation Models framework
@devConstructor
June 12, 2026 at 2:48 pm
Bridget is like 👿👿 “got ya you android users”.
Reality is Apple is probably licensing a customized version of Gemini. They are probably licensing their cloud services too. And no Apple doesn’t have data centers and labs to maintain their own model because it doesn’t EXIST you sheeples@ 🤭
Gemini:
“Apple completely shook things up at WWDC last week, officially rebuilding their assistant from the ground up and renaming it **Siri AI**.
The short answer is that it runs on a heavily customized hybrid system. While it isn’t just a basic copy-paste of Google’s consumer app, it is fundamentally powered by **Google’s Gemini family of models** through a massive multi-year partnership between Apple and Google (reported to be worth around $1 billion a year).
Here is exactly how the underlying AI architecture breaks down:
### The Core Engine: Apple Foundation Models (AFM)
Apple introduced a brand-new internal family of models called **Apple Foundation Models (AFM)**, which were co-developed with Google. A system orchestrator dynamically decides which model to use depending on what you ask:
* **AFM Core & Core Advanced (On-Device):** These handle smaller, faster requests right on your phone or Mac. They take care of local context parsing, onscreen awareness, fast dictation, and the new expressive voice pacing.
* **AFM Cloud & Cloud Pro (Server-Side):** For complex agentic tasks, advanced reasoning, and deep workflows, Siri routes requests to these heavyweight cloud models.
### Where Google Gemini Comes In
Siri AI is not just bouncing your text to standard Google servers; it uses Apple’s own deployment frameworks. However, Google’s DNA is all over it:
* **Co-Development & Training:** The AFM models were built alongside Google DeepMind, drawing heavily from the Gemini model ecosystem. Apple’s VP of AI Engineering (who happens to be a former Google Gemini lead) noted that Siri AI was trained using reinforcement learning refined by Gemini’s most advanced outputs.
* **Infrastructure:** To run the top-tier *AFM Cloud Pro* model, Apple is actually utilizing Nvidia GPUs housed inside Google’s cloud servers.
> **The Privacy Catch:** Because privacy is Apple’s whole brand, they built a strict scaffolding around this Google partnership. Before a complex query ever leaves your device to hit those Gemini-backed cloud servers, Apple’s **Private Cloud Compute (PCC)** infrastructure strips away all personally identifiable information. Google is contractually barred from retaining any of your query data or using it to train future models.
>
Essentially, Apple built the car and controls the steering wheel, but Google Gemini is providing the engine under the hood for the heavy lifting.”
@alexalexander1984
June 12, 2026 at 3:02 pm
In short, it is a multi-billion-dollar partnership where Google provides the foundational AI science, search knowledge, and cloud muscle, while Apple maintains total control over the user interface, app integration, and strict data privacy.
@eklectrikmusic
June 12, 2026 at 3:22 pm
How drunk are these people?
@eklectrikmusic
June 12, 2026 at 3:26 pm
So basically Siri AI is sending our personal inquiries to Google?
Doesn’t sound very “Private”
Privacy was the whole reason I started with Apple all those many decades ago.
@cleartoner
June 12, 2026 at 3:47 pm
Saving this to send to everyone who brings this up over the next 9 months.
@JL-dw8wf
June 12, 2026 at 5:27 pm
“They use Apple stuff” hahahahahahahaha
Can we say fanboy? Lol “Google Helped design some of the models” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Apple needed Google. So yeah Gemini.
@ScottsMusic_1976
June 12, 2026 at 5:30 pm
This is so embarrassing for both people involved.
@Inthewyld
June 12, 2026 at 6:03 pm
Why you so defensive
@DJ_Darkstar
June 12, 2026 at 6:17 pm
OMG… That means the results will be… WORSE!! 😂😂😂
@rickdarone
June 12, 2026 at 6:25 pm
It’s like purchasing an Aston Martin sports car. It’s luxurious, refined, beautiful and sporty. But the real powerhouse of it, lies in the Mercedes AMG engine. That’s what makes the entire Aston Martin work so beautifully. Aston Martin didn’t want to reinvent a V8 engine. They just used an already legendary engine instead. It saved them time, money and engineering resources to make the whole of the car, a feat of engineering. There’s no shame in what Apple is doing. Just be honest and truthful. We’re not stupid.
@jthoward7279
June 12, 2026 at 6:43 pm
????????
@jorgemiranda2613
June 12, 2026 at 6:49 pm
The fact that you guys did the video makes this less believable
@SeanTube2099
June 12, 2026 at 6:50 pm
Ok this makes sense.
@icymayne
June 12, 2026 at 7:01 pm
My two favorite at CNET
@Kevkin
June 12, 2026 at 7:51 pm
Thish shampagne is delishious. You know what, (hic!), you’re a great colleague. Shall we post a video about Gemini I mean Shiri? 🥴
@MistrZIGZAG
June 12, 2026 at 8:56 pm
All these ai models have their own personalities and Siri feels nothing like Gemini
@reeco357
June 13, 2026 at 4:58 pm
I’m sorry but these people should be fired. Just look at the press release from Apple then you will see everything y’all just said it’s lies
@EdwardDeary
June 13, 2026 at 7:20 pm
They drank the kool aid.
@socialvalentine
June 13, 2026 at 10:51 pm
Google just sold Apple Ai code that’s all
@thecapone45
June 14, 2026 at 12:06 am
Bridgette is GONE! 😂
@reziee5897
June 14, 2026 at 6:34 am
It’s like Apple saying don’t need Google. 😂 But what will happen if Google services was not available in Apple devices? They will became Huawei.
@DxAnonymousx
June 14, 2026 at 8:57 am
Really 😅😅
I tried to use Gemini with a simple task,
then they have the same prompt approach.
Test it yourself before
.saying anything
@AnthonyGale
June 14, 2026 at 11:05 am
I think they’re using Google more than your explanation, otherwise, if it was a once a done thing, why would they pay Google $1 billion a year?
@paperfolder9013
June 14, 2026 at 2:59 pm
Still waiting for Siri ai after a week on the waitlist. Sad
@eclipsey999
June 15, 2026 at 1:10 am
From Apple’s website: “we are collaborating with Google and NVIDIA to run new Apple Intelligence workloads on Google Cloud.” So more demanding cloud -based AI queries now run on Google Cloud servers, while less demanding ones use on device processing. It’s not using Gemini but some Siri queries will use Google servers.
@forme1981
June 15, 2026 at 1:10 am
What happens to Apple intelligence?
@erdemz1388
June 15, 2026 at 4:41 am
Sure
@needleontherecord
June 15, 2026 at 4:57 am
Sure Jan.
@sayajinx212
June 15, 2026 at 7:23 am
It’s that simple
@Hyperlynx-studio
June 15, 2026 at 12:04 pm
She is Siri in human form. 😅
@Chadwick2026
June 15, 2026 at 12:41 pm
You guys are so likeable, just look at the comment section. Everyone seems to agree with you.
@earnhar768
June 15, 2026 at 1:40 pm
You know the little twirling thing on Siri AI is the exact same twirling thing as YouTube uses when a video is loading. Siri=Google 🤣
@perhapsme988
June 15, 2026 at 5:50 pm
Foundation models don’t cost a lot or independent or university based models wouldn’t be possible, eg.
Broad world knowledge also isn’t that expensive to get especially given Apple’s resources.
Gemini is only used to compare the competency of Siri-AI. It’s like 2 athletes compete with each other in mock competitions after training to improve better.
No wonder Google only charges Apple a small amount to use Datacentre infrastructure (building and hardware) for Apple to use.
Because Gemini Cloud based approach is very costly. Apple Siri is less expensive and Google has not much leverage when Apple has the model and the Broadworld knowledge database to use itself.
On- device first makes sense. The entire processing power of devices must be larger than that of Datacentre world. So waste it?
This is on top of the privacy issue.
Over time the compute power of devices will only get much larger at not much higher cost. Privacy hence will be why not on device as well when it’s obvious.
Let the datacentre players burn their cash and worsens their balance sheet. Recent capital raising via share issue by Datacentre players likely because their bankers are forcing them or OTHERWISE. Minimum income never covers mega spend.
@PalwinderKahlon-t4s
June 15, 2026 at 6:13 pm
First stage : denial (finding any reason)
Yess it is different commute or private as per apple. Like they said siri is not listening and then lawsuit 😂.
But they had to get help from google
@Graybeard_
June 15, 2026 at 6:30 pm
Another case of folks thinking they are AI savy–not
@supersymmetry8964
June 15, 2026 at 7:17 pm
I believe Apple only adopted the pre-training layer from Gemma 4 and QAT, which contains the base knowledge or vocabulary of concepts of a LLM, meanwhile the rest is built by Apple, which represents the personality and ethics standards.
@RanveerPlayz02
June 15, 2026 at 7:50 pm
nah, you do not know anything, it is based off of gemini
@raphymartinez
June 15, 2026 at 9:30 pm
Y’all were 100% banged up when you recorded this
@yanickhildenbrand8458
June 16, 2026 at 1:03 pm
“Apple has always had the foundation to build great Al. While they needed a little help from Google along the way, everything that powers Siri is built on Apple Foundation models.” The request will be executed on the device using the powerful NPU. They use the Gemini models but everything ever request is managed by Apples Foundation models and Private Cloud Compute
@justonesandzeros42
June 16, 2026 at 1:28 pm
That’s a rough 40
@RaminM-xe2jl
June 16, 2026 at 6:33 pm
Siri AI is the most expensive version of Gemini that Apple iPhone users receive for free🆗
@sharonb.9128
June 17, 2026 at 7:48 am
My understanding is GEMINI is developed by the same model Apple created Siri AI from. It’s a fork from the original model. Gemini isn’t a parent, it’s more of a sibling. Apple and Gemini used the same Google foundational model. Very similar to what Apple did with ARM and the M series divergence.
@melissakautz9687
June 17, 2026 at 1:58 pm
They said at the event that Siri is using Gemini so yes, Siri is Gemini if they are using Gemini.