After Gemini-Siri Deal: Google Now Apple's "Preferred Cloud Provider"
Apple Intelligence and Siri will soon be based on Google Gemini. The deal includes Google Cloud services, causing unrest among iPhone users.
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What does the major AI deal between Apple and Google actually mean for the data protection and security of iPhone user data? Google CEO Sundar Pichai has now caused additional uncertainty: Google is now Apple's "preferred cloud provider," the CEO told financial analysts after announcing the latest financial results on Thursday night, without providing further details.
He was pleased about the cooperation with the iPhone company and the joint development of "the next generation of Apple's Foundation models based on Gemini technology," Pichai said. Google's Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler repeated the exact same wording a short time later, as can be seen from the transcript. The managers subsequently left an analyst's question about the deal unanswered.
Google Deal: Tim Cook also remains tight-lipped
After the deal was announced in January, Apple and Google emphasized in a joint statement that Apple Intelligence "continues to run on Apple devices and in Private Cloud Compute" and adheres to "Apple's industry-leading privacy standards." Siri was not mentioned separately. Apple CEO Tim Cook also evaded questions from financial analysts at the end of January: "Regarding the agreement with Google, we will not release any details," Cook said curtly.
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Currently, some of Apple Intelligence's language models run locally on devices, and certain requests are sent to a larger language model on Apple servers. Users see nothing of this. Apple promises to use this data in its Private Cloud Compute only to implement the respective action and then delete it. It would not be further processed for AI training or other purposes. Employees would not be able to view it at any time. However, end-to-end encryption is not used. Interactions with Siri have so far been fundamentally transcribed and evaluated by Apple. Anyone using the ChatGPT integration in Siri sends their data to OpenAI's servers.
Siri Chatbot from iOS 27 in Google Cloud?
According to information from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the first version of the new Gemini-based Siri is said to run on Apple's cloud infrastructure. However, for future AI functions in iOS 27 – including an expected Siri chatbot – the use of Google Cloud is being discussed, Gurman wrote. Google also recently presented a solution based on Private Cloud Compute; whether it will be used for this, for example, remains to be seen for now. Apple has also relied on Google as a cloud provider for a long time to host iCloud data.
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