Siegler: Apple's plan to power Siri with Gemini and third-party models is right
M.G. Siegler · More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit · Apr 10, 2026 · at 42:33
MG Siegler discusses Apple's reported AI strategy and Siri redesign on the Big Technology Podcast with Alex Kantrowitz.
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“They have obviously the deal in place with Google to use Gemini and Gemini is going to underpin You know, the Siri models and now the new reports that they're going to allow other third parties potentially to come in there, including obviously they've already had chat GBT as a part of it. I think it's way too buried for what it's been right now. It's way too buried within Siri, but if they make it more of a first class citizen and along with Claude, if you wanted Claude, if you wanted perplexity, if you wanted any number of other sort of apps, they'll just allow them to plug right into it on top of their baseline Siri Powered by Gemini. I think that's the right approach and I'm getting optimistic.”
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