Apple may integrate Google’s Gemini AI into iOS in the future

Apple is integrating GPT-4o, the big language mannequin that powers ChatGPT into iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and MacOS Sequioa because of a partnership with OpenAI introduced at WWDC, the corporate’s annual developer convention, on Monday. However shortly after the keynote ended, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vp of software program engineering mentioned that the corporate may additionally bake in Gemini, Google’s household of enormous language mannequin, into its working programs.

“We wish to allow customers in the end to decide on the fashions they need, possibly Google Gemini sooner or later,” Federighi mentioned in a dialog with reporters after the keynote. “Nothing to announce proper now.”

The information is notable as a result of although Apple did point out plans so as to add extra AI fashions into its working system within the keynote, it didn’t point out Gemini particularly. Letting folks select the AI mannequin they need on their gadgets as a substitute of merely foisting one on them would give Apple gadgets a stage of customization that none of its rivals like Google or Samsung have.

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