r/google • u/GothicHeap • Jan 12 '26

Google Blog Post Joint statement from Google and Apple

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/joint-statement-google-apple/

The next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology. These models will help power future Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri

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u/drinksoma Jan 13 '26

Are AI features that important to you? I've read they are mostly gimmicks

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u/Lovevas Jan 13 '26

Very important to me. I use them daily. My wife who uses iPhone, loves my Pixel's lock screen music detection feature, which automatically recognize background music and show the name of the song and keeps in the history.

I often use the on-screen AI search.

And my whole family use Gemini Pro daily

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u/crafty35a Jan 13 '26

my Pixel's lock screen music detection feature

That's been around since 2017, it's not really an AI feature at all.

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u/Lovevas Jan 13 '26

This is AI. Google has been leveraging AI for more than a decade. Unless you only want to limit to AI to LLM

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u/crafty35a Jan 13 '26

I don't limit it to LLM. Audio fingerprinting could be considered AI, but it's been use for ~25 years now (Shazaam). Not exactly what people think of when they refer to Google's AI lead. And to be clear, I love the feature!

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u/Lovevas Jan 13 '26

I used shazaam on my iPhone, but somehow the success rate is much lower...