{"slug": "apple-confirms-not-using-google-models-apps-or-search-in-apple-intelligence", "title": "Apple confirms not using Google models, apps or search in Apple Intelligence", "summary": "Apple confirmed it does not use Google's Gemini models, Google Search, or Google Assistant infrastructure to power Siri or Apple Intelligence, despite a partnership involving Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google's cloud. Senior Vice President Craig Federighi stated during a post-WWDC technical discussion that Apple uses none of Google's deployed models, client code, or search knowledge base for its system. The company's new Apple Foundation Models are custom-built for Apple Silicon and trained on proprietary data, though they are refined using outputs from Gemini frontier models.", "body_md": "One Foundation Model runs on Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google’s cloud and some Google proprietary model data used to refine Apple’s Models.\n\nApple has shared new details about the technology behind its latest Apple Intelligence platform, explaining how its new Apple Foundation Models (AFM) work and clarifying the company’s relationship with Google. During a post-WWDC technical discussion, Apple executives said the company does not use Google’s Gemini models, Google Search, or Google Assistant infrastructure to power Siri or Apple Intelligence\n\nCraig Federighi, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering:\n\n“Of course, we don’t have the Gemini app as our app. In fact, none of that client code is part of how we run on iOS. For these models, we use none of the models that Google deploy to their customers, nor do we use the infrastructure and means by which they deploy models to their customers. And then, when it comes to the knowledge base, we of course don’t use Google Search or anything like that as the foundation of our system. So I hope that’s clear. The amount of the Google Assistant we use is none.”\n\nSource: [The Mac Observer](https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-confirms-google-isnt-running-siri-despite-the-partnership/?utm_source=macobserver&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_everything)\n\n**NB:** Apple introduced five foundation models.\n\n**AFM Core**(used for expressive voices and invitation capabilities on device)** AFM Core Advanced**(on device)** AFM Cloud****AFM Cloud Image** image generation and editing tools, including spatial reframing**AFM Cloud Pro** complex reasoning and agentic actions; Nvidia GPUs hosted in Google’s cloud\n\nThese models are custom-built for Apple Silicon, trained using proprietary data, and *refined using outputs from Gemini frontier models*. The company emphasized that there is no direct use of Gemini itself.\n\nSubscribe to [ Asymco One](/one/#subscribe) to read the rest of this and other in-depth analysis and commentary.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-confirms-not-using-google-models-apps-or-search-in-apple-intelligence", "canonical_source": "https://asymco.com/2026/06/12/apple-confirms-not-using-google-models-apps-or-search-in-apple-intelligence/", "published_at": "2026-06-12 14:45:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-12 14:50:47.801893+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Apple", "Google", "Craig Federighi", "Apple Intelligence", "Apple Foundation Models", "Gemini", "Siri", "The Mac Observer"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-confirms-not-using-google-models-apps-or-search-in-apple-intelligence", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-confirms-not-using-google-models-apps-or-search-in-apple-intelligence.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-confirms-not-using-google-models-apps-or-search-in-apple-intelligence.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/apple-confirms-not-using-google-models-apps-or-search-in-apple-intelligence.jsonld"}}