Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, hopes to strike a deal with Apple to bring Gemini to iPhones by the middle of this year. The CEO revealed this during his testimony in an antitrust trial against Google.
Pichai discussed the possibility of bringing Gemini to iPhones with Apple CEO Tim Cook last year.
Gemini AI could come to iPhone later this year
Apple partnered with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence in iOS 18. Before WWDC24, there were rumors that Apple also held discussions with Google for Gemini integration. But over a year later, Google’s AI model is not yet natively available on the iPhone through Apple Intelligence.
It seems Google and Apple are still in talks about integrating Gemini on iPhones. During the ongoing court proceedings in the DOJ vs. Google case, Sundar Pichai said he hopes to offer Gemini as a built-in AI option on iPhones this year and strike a deal by mid-2025.
If Pichai succeeds, we could see Apple highlight Gemini integration on iPhones when it unveils iOS 19 at WWDC25. The company’s flagship developer event will take place from June 9 to 13 this year.
Apple currently relies on OpenAI’s ChatGPT for handling advanced Siri queries and Writing Tools. If the Google deal goes through, the company may offer users an option to choose between ChatGPT and Gemini’s AI models for these tasks.
Will Google pay Apple for Gemini integration in iOS 19?
Despite integrating ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence, no money exchanged hands between the two companies. Apple pays nothing to OpenAI for the integration, and OpenAI offers no compensation to Apple for the exposure. A report previously revealed that Apple believes the exposure to ChatGPT is “of equal or greater value than monetary payments.”
Apple may not strike a similar deal with Google for Gemini integration in iOS 19. The latter already pays Apple billions of dollars every year to keep Google as Safari’s default search engine on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Source: Reuters
