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Apple is reportedly nearing a significant agreement with Google to pay approximately $1 billion annually for Google’s advanced Gemini AI model. This model will power a major revamp of Apple’s Siri voice assistant, expected to launch next spring. The Google Gemini AI model, with 1.2 trillion parameters, is substantially more complex than Apple’s current technology, which uses 150 billion parameters. This partnership follows Apple’s evaluation of AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic before selecting Google’s solution. The move is seen as a temporary strategy by Apple until its own AI technology becomes sufficiently advanced.