Apple might unveil the much-anticipated, Gemini backed Siri as soon as next month, as per the tidbits gleaned from the latest iteration of Mark Gurman's Power On newsletter.
Mark Gurman: Apple might reveal the Gemini-backed Siri by late February 2026
We noted in a dedicated post recently that Apple has formally selected Google's Gemini to power the next generation of its on-device Foundation Models.
The tie-up will also allow Apple to launch a revamped version of Siri, likely with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update, bringing the much-delayed in-app actions, personal context awareness, and on-screen awareness to its bespoke voice assistant, enabling a wide variety of agentic actions across apps, based on personal data and on-screen content.
To do so, Apple is planning to deploy a gigantic 1.2-trillion-parameter custom Gemini AI model on its cloud servers to power AI features under the ambit of its Private Apple Intelligence - where relatively simple AI tasks are performed by using on-device models and the computational resources of the device itself, while the more complex tasks are offloaded to Apple's private cloud servers using encrypted and stateless data for subsequent inference.
Now, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has declared that Apple might unveil the revamped, Gemini-backed Siri as soon as next month:
"Today, Apple appears to be less than a month away from unveiling the results of this partnership. The company has been planning an announcement of the new Siri in the second half of February, when it will give demonstrations of the functionality."
According to Gurman, the unveil might take the form of a grand event or a smaller media briefing. The upcoming Apple Creator Studio briefing might provide one such avenue for Apple.
Of course, the revamped Siri is expected to ship with the iOS 26.4 update, which is expected to enter its beta stage in February and roll out publicly in March or early April 2026. Interestingly, the Apple Foundation Models that now run on the 1.2-trillion-parameter custom Gemini LLM - which is hosted on private Apple Cloud servers - have been dubbed the Foundation Models version 10, making it seem as if the underlying technology is entirely Apple's.
Even so, with the iOS 27 update, Apple is planning to launch a dedicated Siri chatbot that will run on Google's own TPUs and cloud infrastructure, possibly leased by Apple.
According to Gurman, the Siri chatbot will be baked into Apple's software rather than debuting as a standalone app, allowing it to search the web, generate content, including images, provide coding assistance, summarize and analyze information, as well as upload files.
It will be able to use personal data to complete tasks and sport a substantially improved search feature. Apple is also designing a feature that will let the Siri chatbot view open windows and on-screen content, as well as adjust device features and settings.
In his latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman notes that iOS 27 will arrive in its beta form this summer. The chatbot Siri will reportedly leverage a much more advanced version of Google's Gemini model, known internally as Apple Foundation Models version 11. Gurman adds that "the model is expected to be competitive with Gemini 3 and significantly more capable than one supporting the iOS 26.4 Siri."
Meanwhile, Apple has scaled back some of its other ambitious AI-related projects such as the World Knowledge Answers - aiming to compete with the likes of ChatGPT and Perplexity by providing accurate and snappy answers to general queries - and an AI-driven overhaul of the Safari browser, which was to introduce features such as "assessing the trustworthiness of documents and data, and cross-referencing information across multiple sources." Similarly, its planned overhaul of Apple Health is also in flux.
Finally, Gurman notes that while Apple continues to develop its own on-device AI models, its focus has clearly shifted towards the more powerful Gemini models that are being deployed on the cloud. As such, "Apple plans to deploy higher-performance, in-house servers next year to support those efforts."
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