Apple and Google appear to have a symbiotic relationship, with Apple using its unrivaled financial power to gain access to Gemini’s highly capable AI models. And this mutual synergy appears to be strong enough to merit a special mention and prime time for Apple at its Google Cloud Next 2026 event.
Apple has just become one of Google Cloud’s most important customers
Google used Apple as a very important and profitable tool to demonstrate the power of its Gemini AI model at the recently concluded Google Cloud Next 2026 event.
This comes as the Cupertino-based tech giant recently signed a secret deal with Google that may be worth up to $5 billion early on, and is expected to become increasingly profitable as time goes on.
Under the terms of the deal, Apple will pay Google about $1 billion a year as a kind of licensing fee to deploy its giant custom Gemini AI model with 1.2 trillion parameters on Apple’s private servers, where it will help process more complex AI requests using encrypted and stateless data to preserve user privacy.
What’s more, Apple’s updated Siri chatbot that will launch with iOS 27 is slated to run on Google’s own TPU and cloud infrastructure, albeit under Apple ownership. The iPhone maker emphasized that the arrangement will not result in changes to Apple’s strict privacy protections.
The Siri chatbot will reportedly utilize a much more advanced version of Google’s Gemini model, known internally as Apple Foundation Models version 11. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the model is expected to compete with the Gemini 3.
Against this favorable backdrop, it’s not surprising that Google would try to shine a special spotlight on iPhone manufacturers at its cloud-focused event.
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