Apple's Siri is finally getting a real AI brain
By Chatday Editorial Team ·
For years, Siri has been the punchline of the AI era, the assistant that could set a timer and not much else, while chatbots like ChatGPT quietly ran off with the future. That’s about to change. On June 8, at its big yearly event for developers, Apple is expected to show off a completely rebuilt Siri. And here’s the twist: the brain behind it reportedly belongs to Google.
Wait: Apple is using Google’s AI?
Yes, and that’s the plot twist nobody saw coming. Apple is famous for building everything itself and keeping rivals at arm’s length. But in January 2026, Apple and Google confirmed a multi-year partnership: the next version of the technology that powers Siri will be built on Google’s Gemini. According to Bloomberg, Apple is paying Google somewhere around a billion dollars a year for a custom version.
Why rent instead of build? Because making a truly smart AI is wildly expensive, and Apple fell behind. Borrowing the best engine on the market, and wrapping it in Apple’s privacy and polish, is simply the faster way to catch up.
What’s actually confirmed vs. what’s still a rumor
A lot of “news” about this is really educated guessing. Here’s the honest split:
| ✅ Confirmed | 🤔 Still rumored |
|---|---|
| The keynote is June 8 | The exact ~$1B/year price tag |
| Apple–Google Gemini partnership (Jan 2026) | The new Siri app’s full feature list |
| Siri’s overhaul is the main story | How well it’ll actually work day one |
The part that matters most
Here’s the detail we find genuinely exciting. The new Siri will reportedly let you hand questions off to other chatbots: ask Siri something, then route it to ChatGPT or Claude if you’d rather. In other words, even Apple is quietly admitting there’s no single “best” AI. The smart move is picking the right one for the job.
Which, funny enough, is exactly the idea Chatday was built on.
You don’t have to wait until the fall
The “use the best AI for each question” trick? You can do it today, no new iPhone, no waiting for a software update. You can even line the models up and see who answers better.
Or just start chatting with each one and feel the difference yourself: