This is how Apple built 'a Siri that’s profoundly more capable' — and yes, it was done with Google…
When Apple talks about how it used Google's Gemini foundation models to build the all-new Siri, without using the Gemini app, it can start to sound like semantics. But a deep dive with the team that built the Siri we were promised almost two years ago quickly disabuses you of that notion.
"This is the amount of the Google assistant we use, which is none," said Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, on Monday, just hours after Apple finally unveiled the Siri we'd been promised two years ago during Monday's WWDC 2026 Keynote.
Wearing his trademark tight blue dress shirt, Federighi sat alongside Sebastien Marineau, VP Software at Apple, Amar Subramanya, VP, AI,atApple, and Apple's VP of engineering, Mike Rockwell, on the small Developer Center stage, a relatively intimate setting compared to the vast outdoor Keynote venue situated just outside...
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