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Apple executives revealed at WWDC that its most advanced AI model, AFM Cloud Pro, runs on Nvidia GPUs deployed in Google's cloud infrastructure while maintaining Apple's privacy guarantees. The company disclosed it uses Google's Gemini frontier models to refine its own custom models built for Apple Silicon.

Apple announced at WWDC 2026 that the rebuilt Siri runs on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model based on Google's Gemini technology, hosted on Google Cloud servers powered by Nvidia Blackwell B200 GPUs. The company unveiled a three-tier privacy architecture and five new Apple Foundation Models to handle queries across device, private cloud, and Google Cloud infrastructure.

Apple announced significant updates to Image Playground at WWDC 2026, adding natural language editing capabilities and multi-subject generation from Photos library. The updates address previous quality concerns, though hands-on testing has not yet been conducted.

Apple announced a standalone Siri app at WWDC 2026, marking what the company calls the assistant's biggest transformation. The app archives conversation history, supports text and voice input plus document and image uploads, and syncs across Apple devices via iCloud.

Apple will unveil a major Siri upgrade powered by Google's Gemini technology at WWDC 2026, according to reports. The company is also launching a standalone Siri app to compete with ChatGPT and Claude, plus an AI agent integration in the App Store.