Apple To Pay Google US$1 Billion A Year To Power Overhauled Siri

It seems Apple is enlisting Google’s help for its new and improved Siri. According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the iPhone maker is currently finalising an agreement with the search engine giant. This deal will allow Apple access to a custom version of Gemini for a price of around US$1 billion (~RM4.2 billion) a year. Google’s model uses 1.2 trillion parameters for its processes, far exceeding Apple’s own models. For comparison, the cloud-based model for Apple Intelligence has 150 billion parameters.

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