Apple Will Reportedly Rent Siri a New Brain from Google for $1 Billion Per Year

Siri, which somehow still stinks, is finally getting a new core AI model, and it’s going to be a 1.2 trillion parameter Google Gemini-based LLM, according to Bloomberg Apple reporter Mark Gurman. Until Apple gets its act together on a proprietary AI system, Gurman writes, it will reportedly give Google about $1 billion per year for a temporary fix.

Internally, Apple apparently calls the Google-powered Siri upgrade by the code-name “Linwood,” according to the report, and rather than…