They have instead asked Anthropic and OpenAI to train some of their models on their Private Cloud Compute servers.
The Samsung model
This mirrors Samsung’s approach to integrating Large Language Models in its Galaxy phones, where they have some in-house, lower level AI doing the legwork and passing the rest off to Google’s Gemini, writes Engadget.
According to Bloomberg, Apple has recently focused on Anthropic as the most promising LLM, being more compatible with Apple servers and offering the best experience.
Could be costly for Apple
As opposed to the Samsung/Gemini partnership, which Google pays «enormous sums» for, Apple is already in negotiation with Anthropic and they seem to be demanding a multibillion-dollar annual fee that increases over time, writes MacRumors.
Attention is therefore turning to partnering with other providers, like using OpenAI.
Not scheduled until 2026
The LLM Siri won’t arrive this year, though. It’s scheduled to presumably debut with iOS 27 in the fall of 2026, with a separate in-house developed «personalized» Siri slated for iOS 26, coming in the fall of 2025.
Apparently, Apple will still be working on its own LLM offerings, hoping to get a product comparable to the leading AI labs at some stage in the future, and might make the switch at a later time.
Apple presently hands off to ChatGPT for some «harder questions» to their Siri bot, but this unfolding deal seems to be for a much more integrated approach closer to «what customers have come to expect» from an LLM Siri.
Read More: Bloomberg broke the story, but is paywalled, MacRumors has perspective, quotes, Engadget summarizes the report, and a writeup at The Verge.