{"id":2381,"date":"2026-01-16T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/why-did-apple-choose-gemini-for-next-gen-siri\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T16:51:09","slug":"why-did-apple-choose-gemini-for-next-gen-siri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/why-did-apple-choose-gemini-for-next-gen-siri\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Apple choose Gemini for next-gen Siri?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apple&#8217;s next-gen Siri is still far off, but this week the company announced that it&#8217;ll be using Google&#8217;s Gemini AI for its new foundation models. In this episode, Devindra and Engadget&#8217;s Igor Bonifacic discuss why Apple teamed up with Google again, instead of OpenAI or Anthropic. Also, they chat about Meta&#8217;s Reality Lab layoffs, which is refocusing the company on AI hardware like its smart glasses.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading-mb col-body heading-text-style font-bold charcoal-color\" data-jump-link-target=\"\" id=\"subscribe\"><strong>Subscribe!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"heading-mb col-body heading-text-style font-bold charcoal-color\" data-jump-link-target=\"\" id=\"topics\">Topics<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"col-body mb-4\">\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Meta announces 1000+ layoffs, closes 3 VR studios as it shifts focus to AI hardware \u2013 2:12<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Gemini can now pull context from the rest of your Google apps including photos and Youtube history \u2013 12:31<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Framework raises the price of its desktop by $460 because of the global RAM shortage \u2013 18:36<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">NVIDIA may revive the RTX 3060 and kill off 5070 Ti due to its VRAM demands \u2013 21:57<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apple creates a subscription bundle for Pro creative apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic, and others \u2013 23:00<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Tesla\u2019s Full Self Driving is also going subscription only, a year costs $999 \u2013 29:15<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Matthew McConaughey trademarks himself to fight unauthorized AI likenesses \u2013 33:27<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apple announces that its long delayed \u2019smarter Siri\u2019 will be powered by Google Gemini \u2013 35:15<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">X finally responds to Grok\u2019s CSAM and nudity generation with limits \u2013 51:46<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-[[fullbleed-start_body-start]_auto_[body-end_fullbleed-end]]\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Cursor claims their AI agents wrote 1M+ lines of code to make a web browser from scratch, are developers cooked? \u2013 57:52 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"heading-mb col-body heading-text-style font-bold charcoal-color\" data-jump-link-target=\"\" id=\"credits\"><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><strong>Host:<\/strong> Devindra Hardawar<br \/><strong>Guest: <\/strong>Igor Bonafacic <br \/><strong>Producer:<\/strong> Ben Ellman<br \/><strong>Music:<\/strong> Dale North and Terrence O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s next-gen Siri is still far off, but this week the company announced that it&#8217;ll be using Google&#8217;s Gemini AI for its new foundation models. 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