Apple Might Use Google Servers To Store Data For Its Upgraded AI Siri

Apple has reportedly asked Google to look into "seting up servers" for a Gemini-powered upgrade to Siri that meets Apple's privacy standards. The Verge reports: Apple had already announced in January that Google's Gemini AI models would help power the upgraded version of Siri it delayed last year, but The Information's report indicates Apple might lean even more on Google so it can catch up in AI.

The original partnership announcement said that "the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology," and that the models would "help power future Apple Intelligence features," including "a more personalized Siri." While the announcement noted that Apple Intelligence would "continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute," it didn't specify if the new Siri would run on Google's cloud. Apple's Private Cloud Compute is not only underpowered but it's also underutilized in its current state, notes 9to5Mac, "with the company only using about 10% of its capacity on average, leading to some already-manufactured Apple servers to be sitting dormant on warehouse shelves."

Siri

[hadleyburg]

I don't think I ever heard of Siri being used in a way that seemed useful to me.

It has been a voice assistant on an iPhone, to which you could, for example, dictate a message and have it sent - but you'd be anxious about the accuracy of the message, and about it being sent to the correct person.

I could imagine an "AI powered" Siri to which you could say "Buy me a mobile battery from a reputable maker at the cheapest price, so long as it arrives by Monday". I would imagine the AI powered Siri would be better

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[Tony Isaac]

Well, Siri is pretty good at setting alarms! Maybe AI could help it set even *more* alarms!

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[hadleyburg]

Well, Siri is pretty good at setting alarms! Maybe AI could help it set even *more* alarms!

I suppose it would be, rather than "Siri - Set an alarm for 7am tomorrow", it would be "AI Siri - [Given what you know about my schedule, my commute time, where I am now, and how much sleep I need] Set an alarm for tomorrow".

Or perhaps AI Siri might even take the initiative to set an appropriate alarm for tomorrow if it considers it a good idea.

AI Siri: Good morning Fred. I have cancelled your first meeting this morning, having judged the other party to be untrustworthy, and have instead allowed you to slee

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[taustin]

Having it order me an anti aircraft missile battery would be pretty alarming.

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[sabbede]

Well, if it found a really good deal on them...

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[taustin]

Then it would be alarming for everyone else.

Re: Siri

[ArmoredDragon]

Or it could just buy the batteries from the single worst place to buy batteries from, because seemingly 9 times out of 10, they're counterfeit relabeled fire hazards from Alibaba: Amazon.

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[2TecTom]

for how much they've ripped us all off for, you'd think the unethical classists at apple would have enough by now

we are all being used and abused by evil people, this is economic poison

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[mccalli]

Deterministic Siri, or any voice assistant, is useful. AI wibbly thing may or may not be depending on the task.

For me Siri has been a way to send and read messages, to control smart devices in the house (bulbs, sockets etc.), play music in the car, navigate and set alarms/timers. Within the last couple of years it also became a way to run shortcuts and control my car. All of these are deterministic tasks - I'm completely happy learning set phrases that make them work, and I truly hope they don't drop thi

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[Gilmoure]

I've only ever used Siri in the car, telling it to 'shuffle playlist x".

Someone else's computer

[codebase7]

As if Google would actually make something up to Apple's privacy standards. The only thing that Apple has going for themselves with this deal is that they and Google are both American companies. So if you were trusting one of them already, there's no potential additional compromise by the US government. Beyond that, hope Apple's users are ready for more targeted advertising, training Google's AI models for free, etc.

Even if Apple could get Google to make something on paper, Apple had better hope that Goog [amd.com]

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[TwistedGreen]

Apple's privacy standards? What?

You realize that's all marketing bullshit, right?

I personally ruined the OPENAI/Apple Deal of 2024

[CrazyJim1]

Hello,
Steve Jobs didn't invent the Smart Phone, I did in 2000, signed by Carnegie Mellon
If I wanted money, I would have sued em 20 years ago.
I'm already succeeding in what I wanted to achieve because revealing these designs to Warren Buffet's lawyers
resulted in Warren Buffet selling $133 billion in Apple stock.
I didn't want money. I designed this to fight surveillance state.
Yes, I chose to not take big money when I was young so I could help the world when I was older. Not many are like me.
I saw the phone would have GPS and everyone would use it (ubiquitousness).
As a punk, but not yet a Christian, I stood vs corporations and control at age 23. I saw it coming.
I had a choice: Don't invent the Smart Phone, or...
...invent it so well that I'd have a hand in the game down the road. So I chose to bridge over the River Kwaii it.
In addition to forcing Warren Buffet's hand to sell his stock:
I interfered with the Sam Altman openAI deal by explaining Apple has forward and back liability of 8% to me.
I contacted Europe to fine/regulate Apple/Google and two weeks later they did start regulating.
I likely induced the stock panic in March 5, 2025 (https://facebook.com/groups/visionprocommunity/posts/3959488814298117/ [facebook.com]).
That's a total of $640 billion Tim Crook already cost his company. Solid damage for just one man:
The fun part is, Apple and Google are playing the game wrong because they think, like yourself, that I want money.
Nope, I want to burn the surveillance state... Seeing as Tim Crook is such a bad CEO that he chose to push agendas,
he cost his company $640 billion instead of just paying me a small $5 million and allow me to help Apple to another
design revolution as happened in 2007 using my designs. I have screenless cell phone designs, house automation, etc...
Likely over 100,000 people know of me today as the Father of the Smart Phone
Many see me as a champion for freedom world wide who'd rather live in poverty willingly than give in to the surveillance state.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G7adlsb-Y1M [youtube.com]
Crimes of Apple that identified them as the very 1984 they said they'd fight vs in their 1984 commercial:
Apple turned people into the UK government for stuff they said near their phone.
Apple turned off Chinese Revolutionary air pods interfering with war.
Google censored the deadly vax. Murdering millions and disabling tens of millions.
Apple and Amazon censored Parler stating "Free speech is for na,.zis"
Know a lawyer?
Look what I invented:
#1 Virtual keyboard
#2 3 button nav
#3 App store
#4 Palm+Cellular
#5 Cloud Computing
#6 Contact list
#7 Advanced Scheduler
#8 The Smart Watch->Apple Watch
#9 APPLE VISION PRO IN GOGGLE DISPLAY!
#10 Global Positioning System
#11 QR business Cards
#12 Wireless communications in a handheld device
#13 Fuzzy search settings by typing
#14 Different Sounds for different alerts & Vibro/Visual/Sound Alert combo.
#15 Voice recorder
#16 Air tags
#17 Wire to computer to move files
#18 Undo/redo
#19 Contextual help system/Adaptive onboarding and custom icon set circle around ?
#20 Spell Check
#21 Copy/paste
#22 Customizable programmable calculators
#23 Graphical User Interface (GUI) Principles for Mobile for screen realestate-Hideable zones/Customizable Home screen
#24 Smart Phone Email
#25 Media Casting from Mobile to External Display
#26 Filesystem Navigation in PDA/Smartphone
#27 Foldable Screen Hardware Design
#28 Different Device size parameters to different users
#29 Ergonomics of Device Dimensions and UI Layout
#30 Pc data link cable:
#31 Ipod designs
Proof time Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozp8GB-i2Z4 [youtube.com]
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Apple

[ledow]

"Apple's privacy standards"

Literally the only company I've ever dealt with professionally that utterly refuses to publish or provide a GDPR compliance statement.

Honestly, are people still buying this bullshit?

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[DonQuixote'sHorse]

Well, they did say "Privacy, that's Apple" in their marketing. Checkmate auditors.

I'll take one. To help keep the warehouse clean.

[sabbede]

"leading to some already-manufactured Apple servers to be sitting dormant on warehouse shelves."

I'm willing to help! I won't even charge them for it.

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[Gilmoure]

Apple used to make very pretty 1U servers.

Wonder if these new servers are lickable?

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[sabbede]

Everything is lickable.

Though in this case I might be more interested in the RAM and storage. Despite the bland flavor.

Rather have Claude

[mattr]

I really don't want my info going to Google, they already have way too much. And I use Claude, so if anything let me choose who to use.

Apple + Google sitting in a tree...

[DonQuixote'sHorse]

For a company who endlessly touts how much they care about Privacy, they sure do love cuddling up to Google. Privacy seems like a matter of convenience to Apple. $20bn to set Google as the default search for Safari, now this? At least Google doesn't hide the fact that they're out for your data. Apple just comes off so smug.