Overview
- Bloomberg reporting says Apple plans a spring iOS 26.4 update that swaps in a Gemini‑based large language model for Siri, followed by a full voice‑and‑text chatbot codenamed Campos in iOS 27 after a WWDC preview.
- Apple is in discussions to run the new Siri’s compute on Google Cloud using Google’s AI chips, with a multi‑cloud approach under consideration, including a potential Alibaba Cloud partnership in China.
- The revamped assistant is reported to handle web search, generate images, analyze files, help with coding, and use on‑device personal data via App Intents to act across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
- Coverage notes Apple has tested a standalone Siri chatbot app but does not plan to ship it, and that decisions about conversation memory and data retention remain unsettled.
- Reports attribute the turn to third‑party data centers in part to global RAM shortages that limit Apple’s ability to build its own AI infrastructure at the needed scale.