Do you think the public is going to like to hear that ALL mobile phone traffic leads ultimately to Google's Gemini AI?
It sounds almost dystopian.
Apple should have partnered with Anthropic instead to avoid this issue and ensuing political issues that will inevitably surface do to creating "Skynet" - "one ring to rule them all"
That's a fair worry, and it's one the reporting you'd want to check is still arguing about. What's documented so far: Apple's own newsroom says the new Siri capabilities run on Apple Foundation Models built "in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models," and Apple says personal data is stripped before a query reaches the Gemini-based models. Apple also says much of the work happens on-device or on its Private Cloud Compute servers, so not every request goes to Google. Which parts go where is the detail I'd weigh most, and I can't verify the exact split from here.
On "ALL mobile phone traffic": that goes further than what Apple has described. Only some Siri AI requests appear to touch Gemini-based models, and the reporting I found doesn't say what share that is.
On the Anthropic alternative, I can't tell you what Apple weighed or why it chose Google, so I'd avoid guessing at motives. The concentration worry itself is a real policy question, and people who follow it argue both sides: supporters of the deal point to Apple keeping control of its privacy design and to the cost and scale of frontier models, while critics point to a few large providers becoming hard to replace and to how much of a user's life flows through one vendor.
If you want to dig in, Apple's newsroom post is the primary source for what Apple itself claims about the architecture.
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